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HISTORY 



OF THE 



CLASS OF 70 

Department of Literature, Science and the Arts, 
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. 



Edited by 

Charles S. Carter, Secretary. 

Milwaukee, Wis. 



PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE CLASS. 

1903. 



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Press of Burdick & Allen, Milwaukee, Wis. 



TO THE MEMORY 
Of Our 

Sppart^ti (ElasBmatPS 

This Book is 
FONDLY DEDICATED. 



"Friendship's the Wine of Life." 



CONTENTS. 



PART I. 

T 1 ,• . . . . ix 

Introduction 

Biographical sketches— Graduates ■• 

Biographical sketches— Non-Graduates • • ■ 241 

Soldiers' Roll of Honor ;J^^ 

Names of Deceased ^ 

PART II. 

Echoes from College Days ^^^ 

Class Roster, Complete ^^^ 

Minutes of Class Meetings ^^^ 

Class Officers— Freshman Year 317 

Sophomore Year J^^ 

Junior Year ^-^ 



Senior Year. 



326 



Class History, i866 to 1870 -^-'^ 

First Sophomore Exhiliition '''^"^ 

Second Sophomore Exhibition 344 

Junior Exhibition -^ ^ 

Class Day Exercises •. ■''+° 

Commencement Day Exercises -^ 9 

Degrees Conferred ^ 

Students' Lecture Association -^5 J 

Students' Christian Association 354 

Editors of The Oracle 354 

Editors University Chronicle 355 

University Glee Club 356 

Alpha Nu 363 

Literary Adelphi 364 

Philozetian Debating Club 365 

Aristotelian Debating Club 366 



viii Contexts. 

Huron Debating Club 367 

Lower House Faculty 367 

Fraternity Boys 3 70 

Independent Organization 371 

'70 on tlie Diamond 371 

]\Iiscellajieous Items i74 

Our Instructors 375 

Students in University. 1866-1870 376 

PART III. 

Class Re-Unions 377 



INTRODUCTORY. 



Looking l)ack with the eve of memory to September. 1866, we 
see one hundred and three anxious, ardent, resohite boys, just 
bordering on manhood, full of vigor, wit and vivacity, enrolled 
as the class of '70 in the department of literature, science and the 
arts in the University of Michigan. Light-hearted and free we 
were ready and willing to take up any task that might be set be- 
fore us. Misfortunes were to us occasions only for blushing 
laughter ; "conditions" were only marks of honor. We see our 
cheerful band of young fellows entering upon a four years" course 
of study which was to be one of the happiest periods of our lives. 
We see fourteen new members welcomed to the class in sophomore 
year and thirteen of the original number drop out ; sixteen new 
faces and forty vacancies in junior year; one new member and 
three vacancies in senior year, and at the end of the four years a 
graduating class of seventy-six yoitng men — a class larger by 
twenty-two than any previous one gra<luating from that depart- 
ment of the university. 

We came together from one hundred different localities in 
sixteen different states and the District of Columl)ia. Some of 
the older ones of us had been enlisted in the common cause of 
preserving the union, taking part in many of the great battles of 
the civil war, including Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellors- 
ville, Gettysburg, Fair ( )aks and Seven Pines, Murfreesboro, 
Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, the battles 
around Atlanta, those in eastern Kentucky and Tennessee and 
west of the Mississippi, and enduring prison life at Andersonville, 



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Libby prison and at Belle Isle. Meeting for the first time, there- 
fore, in college halls, with like ambitions and purposes, each desir- 
ing sympathy in his new trials antl companionship in his new 
labors, a bond of fellowship and good-will sprang up among us 
and steadily grew in strength with the lapse of weeks and months 
and years. From the first we manifested a universal class-spirit 
of amity and union. This commendable characteristic of college 
life dominated our class throughout our four years' course and 
even now continues to be a source of pride and satisfaction to our 
members. ( )ur class i)rophet expressed what all of us felt, on 
class-day, when he said : 

"But, boys, we'll never cause a tear from our proud old 

Fostering Mother 
While 'Seventy' is the magic word that makes a man a 

brother ; 
Though the storms of life may toss us high and wreck our 

hopes, alas ! 
Deep hidden, safe from every gale, is affection for our 

class." 

It is this aft'cction which, from time to time, has brought so 
many of us together at our class re-unions and at our various local 
gatherings. It is this affection which insisted in 1890, that the 
class secretary publish what information he could gather con- 
cerning the memliers of the class. It is this aff"ection which 
prompts the pulilication of the present volume, that each may more 
fully share in the life experiences of his classmates. It is this 
affection which unites the class by attachments stronger than any 
other save only those of the family circle. 

Much was expected of the class when it left the university. 
That much has been accomplished no one who reads the following 
biographical sketches will deny. We have achieved prominence 
in all the leading occupations of life — as ministers, professors, 
physicians, lawyers, judges, legislators, journalists, civil engineers, 
mining engineers, electrical engineers, railroad men, bankers and 



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men of Inisiness. From our ranks were taken a regent, a pro- 
fessor of mathematics, and a law lecturer of our university ; 
several professors of other institutions : a secretary of the Buffalo 
Pan-American Exposition ; a secretary of the St. Louis Louisiana 
Purchase Exposition ; a college president ; a ])resident of several 
railroads ; a commissioner from California to the World's Fair at 
Chicago ; a deputy labor commissioner for Michigan : an attorney 
for the Sanitary District of Chicago; two assistant Ignited States 
district attorneys ; an assistant secretary of the Carnagie Institu- 
tion at Washington ; a commissioner for Michigan for promoting 
uniformitv of legislation in the United States ; a United States 
Referee in Bankruptcy ; a chief examiner in charge of the class of 
electricity in the patent office ; a member of the Civil Service Com- 
mission ; a district judge at Denver; a probate judge at Luding- 
ton ; a president judge of the 6th judicial district of Pennsylvania, 
at Erie; a circuit judge at Alpena, Mich.; a judge of the 35th 
circuit of Indiana ; a railroad commissioner of Alichigan ; several 
district attorneys ; a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission ; 
a trustee of the public library at Washington ; a director and vice- 
president of the Wichita Railway Co. ; a member of the state 
legislature of Oregon ; two members of the state legislature of 
Michigan ; a superintendent of public instruction for the 
State of Michigan ; an officer of the regular army ; a 
mayor of Detroit ; a representative in congress ; a civil 
engineer to superintend the construction of the mammoth 
railroad tunnel under East River from New York to Brooklyn ; 
two civil engineers to devise a method of preventing future in- 
undations of the City of (ialveston ; a member of the Philippine 
Commission ; a solicitor of the United States Department of State ; 
a secretary of state, and an associate justice of the L'nited States 
Supreme Court. Truly the class of "70 of the University of Michi- 
gan has made its mark. The individual record of each member 
has been creditable and such as to- command the respect of his 
fellow men. Those who have occupied pur)lic stations of trust 
and responsibilitx" ha\-e performed their duties with great credit to 



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themselves and have shed luster on their class, and the university 
with which their names are associated. 

The class as a whole has taken deej) interest in the publication 
of this book and has greatly aided and encouraged the secretary 
in his labors of preparing it for the ])rinter. To Campbell, Culley, 
Dawson, Dodge, Noble, Pentield. Thayer and Winchell, the class 
is indebted for special assistance which they have rendered during 
the progress of the work. If the book shall meet the expectations 
of the class and be deemed worthy of a ]ilace in the lilirary of each 
member the secretary will feel abundantly repaid for the time and 
attention he has devoted to it. 

What the meiubers of the class may yet accomplish may be 
inferred from what has already been done. The average age of 
our members is a little over fifty-six years. Fifty-nine of the 
seventy-six graduate members are still living. Doulit exists as to 
one. Of the fifty-eight non-graduates forty-one are living. The 
labors of a third of a century since we left the university have had 
their efifect u])on us, yet we hesitate to admit that we are not as 
young in spirit as in the old Ann Arl)or days. lUit our wives and 
intimate friends in speaking of us sometimes say that they observe 

"A little more gray in the lessening hair 

Each day as the years go by ; 
A little more stooping of the form, 

A little more dim the eye ; 
A little more faltering of the step 

As we tread life's pathway o'er, 
And a little nearer every day 

To the ones who have gone before." 



Class of '70, U. of M. 



The class which was graduated from the Department of Literature, Science, 
and the Arts of the University of Michigan, June 29, 1870, consisted of the 
seventy-six members whose biographical sicetches in alphabetical order are given 
in the following pages. 



Arthur Clark Adams, A.M., M.D. 
Washington, D. C. 

Was born in Washington, D. 
C, April 14, 1847. His father, 
John G. Adams, was born Dec. 
13, 1 816, and was a merchant in 
Washington. He died July 31, 
1879. He married Maria Frances 
Bradley, of Massachusetts, born 
July 2, 1823. She is still living. 
Their son, Arthur C, received his 
early education in the public 
schools of Washington. In 1861 
he belonged to the President's 
Mounted Guards, Washington, D. 
C, and in 1863 he enlisted in the 
24th N. Y. Cavalry and served for 
six months. He prepared for college at Fulton Seminary, Fulton, 
N. Y., and entered the University of Michigan in 1866 with the 
class of '70, with which he was graduated after the regular four 
years course of study. In college he w^as a member of the Alpha 
Nu literary society and the Psi Upsilon fraternity. After gradua- 
tion he was employed for a time by the Elgin Watch Company in 
Chicago, but soon returned to Washington and entered upon the 
study of medicine at the National Medical College, from which he 
was graduated in March, 1873. He commenced the practice of 




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medicine in Washington and has ever since lieen counted among 
the able and skilful practitioners of that city. He has handled, 
successfully, many very difficult cases. His counsel and skill is 
often sought for by physicians in the treatment of critical cases. 
In 1893 he was Medical Director for the Department of the 
Potomac of the G. A. R. He married INIary Frances Schneider, 
April 16, 1879. Their children are Louis W. Adams, 21 years of 
age, at the Boston School of Technology ; Edna S. Adams, 16 
years of age, at Hannah Moore Academy, Md. ^Ivs. ]\Iary F. 
Adams died in 1889. Dr. Adams has since married Henrietta 
Heitmuller. He is a member of A\'ashington Medical Society and 
Association and of the G. A. R. His present address is 619 
INIassachusetts Ave.. X. E.. \\'ashinoton, D. C. 



Marcus Baker, A.M., LL.B. 

Washingfton, D. C. 

F>aker, be it remembered, is "the 
Gentleman from Kalamazoo," a 
"forty-niner," having been born in 
"49. He joined '70's ranks in the 
L'niversity of ^Michigan in 1868, 
near the end of the Sophomore 
year, having come from the Sopho- 
more class in Kalamazoo College. 
Prof. Olney had somewhere about 
him a tender spot for that college ; 
for not only was it a Baptist col- 
lege, but he had also served in its 
faculty. Indeed it was from that 
faculty that he was promoted to 
the L'niversity of INIichigan, 
wherein he accomplished the work on which his permanent fame 
as a successful teacher rests. Perhaps his attection for the old 




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college in Kalamazoo unconsciously smoothed the way for Baker's 
entrance. Still Baker does not affirm this to he the case. He was 
a good student. Was one of the speakers at our Junior exhibition 
and also one of the speakers at Commencement in June, 1870. 

In the sunnner vacation of 1870, just after graduation, Baker 
with Burton and Mickle. worked for Professor James C. Watson 
in computing data for reconstructing the lunar tables. In Sep- 
tember he applied "for a job." the particular job applied for being 
the mathematical chair in Al!)ion College. The application was 
successful — so successful indeed, he writes, that he has never ap- 
plied for another. The year at Albion was the lirst year in "that 
great battle of life" depicted in college oratory and wdiich in the 
thirtv years retrospect looks like a strenuous year. It was much 
like other years no doubt, "and yet to me," he writes, "no other 
year can ever quite parallel the first year. First things never occur 
twice in one's life and those first things make deep and lasting im- 
pressions." In the summer of 1871 Baker was offered a tutorship 
in the University of Michigan under Professor Olney, an oft'er 
accepted promptly and with a proud consciousness of promotion. 
This work at the university proved exceedingly congenial, for the 
narrow field of teaching required, permitted thoroughness of 
preparation and contrasted sharply with the previous year's work, 
where the very large field to be plowed often, alas, compelled 
shallow tillage. 

In the spring of 1873 there came from Washington to Profes- 
sor Watson a request to designate or recommend a person qualified 
to undertake astronomical field work in an Alaskan field party. 
For this place Professor Watson designated Baker, wdio accord- 
ingly in March. 1873, went to Washington and entered upon what 
has turned out to be his life work. For nearly twenty-nine years 
he has been almost continuously in the service of the government. 
The years of 1873 and 1874 were spent on the Pacific coast, the 
summers in Alaska and the winters in California, in the usual 
coastwise surveys conducted l\v the U. S. Coast Survey, now called 
the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survev. 



Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



Returning to Washington at the beginning of 1875 the next 
five years were spent chiefly in office work at the Coast Survey 
office in matters relating to Alaska. In this work Baker was the 
assistant and esteemed companion of W. H. Dall. then, as now, 
recognized as the best informed man in the country as to Alaska. 
Dall and Baker prepared a Coast Pilot of Alaska, going deeply 
into the whole literature of the subject. 

They published a bibliography, a cartography and collected, 
digested, arranged, and published its meteorolgy, etc. In 1880 
they together again spent a summer in Alaskan surveys and 
gathered material for the Coast Pilot, which was published in 
1883. 

In 1882 Baker was selected by the Coast Survey to establish 
and conduct a primary magnetic station or magnetic observatory 
at Los Angeles, California. Two years, 1882-84 were devoted to 
this work and a successful and continuous record secured of the 
variations in the elements of the earth's magnetism. 

The summer of 1885 he spent in and about New York harbor 
in a study of the tides and currents of that important harbor, of 
the bar. how formed, and how and why changes occur in it. In 
that year also Mr. Cleveland became President and a violent "shak- 
ing up" in the coast survey ensued. Ill content at the outlook 
Baker resigned in the spring of 1886 and at once entered the 
Geological Survey, with which organization he has ever since re- 
mained. For a number of years he was in charge of its Northeast- 
ern division of topography and the States of Massachusetts, Rhode 
Island and Connecticut were mapped under his direction, and 
parts also of several other states, including the anthracite coal 
fields in Pennsylvania. From about 1890 to 1894 he was employed 
in the office as one of the director's principal assistants. 

When President Cleveland's now famous message of Decem- 
ber, 1895, relative to the Venezuelan boundary brought strained 
relations between Great Britain and the United States, a commis- 
sion was appointed to investigate the whole subject. The com- 
mission requested Baker's assignment as geographer and such 



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assig"nment was made. Baker serving until the commission ended 
its labors in 1897. 

It was during- these years that the little wife, who was at the 
reunion of the class of '70 in Ann Arbor, in 1890, was stricken 
with the fatal malady, Bright's disease, and after a lingering ill- 
ness of two and a half years the flickering light went out, leaving 
blackness behind. This darkness came at the very end of 1897. 
Almost at the same moment came a demand for work so engross- 
ing, so urgent, so continuous, that there was no time for aught 
but action. Venezuela and Great Britain had agreed to arbitrate 
their dispute and into this case Baker was invited, went and stayed 
till the verdict was pronounced in Paris in October, 1899. Then 
came a return to Washington and a resumption of work in the 
Geological Survey. 

In 1890 there was created an official or government board on 
geographic names. To this board are referred questions as to 
disputed geographic names which arise in the departments and 
its decisions are to be accepted by the departments as the standard 
authority in such matters. Of this board, now composed of twelve 
representatives from various bureaus and departments. Baker has 
been a member from the beginning and for ten years he has been 
its secretary. He has just completed a dictionary of Alaskan 
geographic names, a book of 446 pages, in which is traced the 
origin, history, application and often the meaning of the names 
which have been and are used in Alaska. 

In the spring of 1894 Major Powell, who had been director of 
the Geological Survey since 1880, resigned and Baker's relations 
to the work were altered. Somewhat ill content with the outlook, 
the occasion was taken to carry out a plan previously formed and 
accordingly in October, 1894. he matriculated as a law student at 
Columbian University. Here he continued for two years, attend- 
ing evening lectures and reading at night, graduating LL.B. in 
1896. 

There now exists in \\'ashington a group of ten federated 
scientific societies. In 1875, however, there was but one, the 



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Philosophical Sncietv. which hatl hecii founded in 1871 and of 
which Professor Joseph Henry, the illustrious secretary of the 
Smithsonian, was president. Baker joined this society in 1876, he- 
canie one of its secretaries in i88i and serv^ed several terms. He 
has also heen its president. In the ])ast twenty-five years there has 
been much scientific activity in Washington and numerous special 
societies have been formed devoted to geography, geology, history, 
anthropology, biology, etc.. culminating in the creation in 1898 of 
the \\'ashington Academy of Sciences. In this movement Baker 
has been one of the active participants and workers and is now a 
member of the governing boards of four of them, contributing to 
the proceedings and sharing- the labors involved. 

For about a dozen years he has been a director in one of the 
largest of Washington's Building Associations and is also a mem- 
ber of Washington Board of Trade. 

He prepared the articles of incorporation of the Carnegie 
Institution, Washington, D. C. founded by Andrew Carnegie, and 
which numbers among its officers and trustees manyleading men of 
the ciiuntry, including the president of the Cnited States, president 
of the Senate, speaker of the House of Representatives, secretary 
of the Smithsonian Institution and the president of the National 
Academy of Sciences. Baker is its assistant secretary. 

In ]May. i8()9, he married Marian Una Strong, a graduate of 
Ann Arbor in 1894. December 11, 1901, was born to them a 
daughter. Barbara, who greets the new century in the name of '70. 
Their home is at 1905 Sixteenth Street. Washington. D. C. where 
a cordial greeting ever awaits the old comrades of '70 bound to us 
by ties that strengthen as the old days of companionship recede. 



Department of Literature. Science, and Arts. 



John Albert Baldwin, A.B. 
Los Gatos, California. 

He was born at Detroit, ?\Iich., 
June 2j. 1847. His father, 
Lyman Baldwin, was born in 
Weston, Connecticut, March 27, 
1802, on a farm where he lived 
until the a^e of 13, when he 
struck out for himself. He went 
to Bridg-eport and learned his 
trade ; married at the age of 25. 
-Vfter several years he moved to 
.\ul)urn, X. Y., where he engagfed 
in the l)ook business, binding, etc. 
After a loss through fire and an 
unfortunate ])artnership he moved 
to Detroit in the fall of 1843, 
where he lived until his death October 18, 1875. John's mother, 
Manc}- Booth, born at Trumbull, Connecticut, married Lyman 
Baldwin at the age of 23. John's entire schooling was in the pu])lic 
schools at Detroit. He spent three years at the high school under 
Professors Chancy and Jones, and entered the Lniversity of 
Michigan in September, 1866. with the class of "70. In college he 
was very popular, on account of his fine musical attainments and 
his happy disposition. He was a memlier of the Alpha Xu and 
the first speaker at our first Sophomore exhibition. He joined the 
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternit}- in his Freshman year and no others 
since. He has never married. After graduation from the uni- 
versity he entered the Lnion Theological Seminary at Xew York 
City in September, 1870, where he took the full course of three 
years, and was graduated from there in the spring of '73. During 
the first year of his theological studies he was taken verv sick and 
came very near giving up his work, but he remained at his post. 




8 Class of 70. University of Michigan. 

He strug-g-led along- for several months until the end of the 
seminarv vear and during the vacation took a much needed rest. 
He entered the second year better, but far from well. He con- 
tinued his course with many ups and downs, and was graduated 
with his class in the spring of 'y^)- 

On his return to Detroit he supplied several pulpits in the city 
and vicinitw his health not permitting him to take a permanent 
charge. He acted as a supply at Dearborn and Inkster, small 
towns near Detroit, for nearly two years — until "75. In the fall of 
that year he accepted a call at Xew Baltimore, ]\Iich., and was 
ordained pastor over the Congregational church. He remained 
there about two years, when he was ol)liged to give up the work 
on account of sickness. He returned to his home and supplied 
vacancies until the summer of "80, when he accepted a position in 
the Wayne County Savings Bank, Detroit. A few months prior 
to this he accepted an invitation from a dear frientl, Frederick 
Stearns, who has been very generous to the university ; donated a 
fine collection of musical instruments, collected in all parts of the 
world. The collection is considered complete, the work of several 
years. Besides these he has contributed man}- curios and antiques. 
He gave Mr. Baldwin a very cordial invitation to accompany him 
in his travels through Europe. IMr. Baldwin accepted at once, and 
has never ceased to thank him. They sailed in February of 1880, 
and after a most tempestuous voyage entered the port of Cher- 
bourg". F" ranee, during a gale, under the cover of the blackest night. 
They visited many provincial towns in France, besides doing- 
Paris, Lyons, Marseilles. It was at the small, historic town, out- 
side of the trend of travel, where they found the greatest pleasure. 
They watched the peasant-life in its simplicity, and picturesque- 
ness, the quaint scenes, the charming life of the common folk. He 
says it was refreshing to them to observe the customs and manners 
of this simple people ; often being wearied with the artificial life 
and conventionalisms of the large cities, and that it was a con- 
stant revelation, and its memory is ever refreshing. Their ob- 
jective point was Rome, where they remained several weeks. They 



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tried to "'do'" the city in their alloted time, l)ut found the task im- 
possible. They did all they could and left the rest to some future 
visit, as every one expects to return. Then Italy, Switzerland, a 
part of Germanv, the famous ride from Mainz to Cologne, over the 
historic Rhine ; then Belgium and to Havre. From there they 
voyaged home. Air. Baldwin says : "The sail was delightful. 
This trip is one of the brightest spots in my life and I like to 
linger here. ()n my return home I felt like a new man, seemed to 
have a new lease of life." The month following his return his 
mother died, June. 1880. She had been an invalid for some time. 
In July, the month foUowdng, he took a position in the Wayne 
County Savings Bank as teller, which position he held for eight 
years, but he found that this clerical work did not agree with him. 
He was obliged to take a trip very frequently to keep himself in 
repair. He found he was losing ground and knew that he must 
give it up, so he determined to make a break — make a radical 
■change, which he did in the fall of "88. 

While at the bank he took several trips, covering old Mexico, 
and considerable of our own country. In December of '88 he made 
a break for the West, where he hoped to regain his health, and 
started for Englet, New Mexico ; a large stock ranch, owned at 
that time by ex-Secretary Alger, M. S. Smith and other Michigan 
capitalists. It was an absolute change — from a wearisome clerical 
life into a solitary, rugged one. He says: 'T took to it from the 
start, and enjoyed every minute. In a clear, dry atmosphere, where 
I could roam for miles with little fatigue, I began to gather strength 
and felt from the start the glow of returning health." He re- 
mained here for two years, then turned his face towards Texas. 
He remained at El Paso for a few months, then directed his course 
to California, the dream of his life. He says: "T reached San 
Francisco in May of 189 1. I expected to reside here or in its 
vicinity, but I was greatly disappoined in the place, for fog and 
trade winds prevailing in the summer made it very uncomfortable, 
so I crossed the bay to Oakland and remained several months, but 
I was not satisfied. I was in search of a home and wanted to Q."et 



10 Class of '70. University of Michigai 



near the mountains, wliere I could spend the rest of m\ davs in 
quiet and contentment. I kept movino-, the next stop was San 
Jose. I was greatly j^leased with the place, the longer I remained. 
the hetter I liked it, and felt that here or among- the neig-hhoring 
hills would he my future home. While in San h>ancisco 1 met an 
old pastor, whom I'd not seen for many years. I told him what I 
wanted, gave him my idea of a home. He said, 'Were vou ever in 
Los Gatos :' I replied, 'I never heard of the place;' he said, "It was 
not far from San Jose and an ideal spot ; set in the Santa Cruz foot- 
hills.' I felt in my hones that this was to he my home. A frientl 
in San Jose gave me a letter of introduction to his friend li\ing 
at that time in this canon. I told him what 1 wanted. After a 
pleasant conversation we put on our hats and walked up the ravine. 
I was charmed — T knew my home was to he in this heautiful 
ravine. At length we came to the s])ot ; it was a revelation : the 
view of the Santa Clara valley has heen a constant inspiration. 1 
said at once I must have it. He said other parties were ahout to 
close a hargain ; he said it was only a ([uestion of paying the most 
money down. 1 wasted no time, threw down a check that gave me 
possession. I think the day I hought this home was one of the 
happiest of my life. 1 had wandered over a large part of the state, 
saw many lovely homes, hut not just what I wanted. I hought 
this property in October of 1891. l)eing just ten years ago. I 
rented it for a few months the following winter and took posses- 
sion in March. 1892. where I have lived ever since. I've not seen 
the day that I cared to live elsewhere ; as for going hack to ]\Iichi- 
gan or the East anywhere, I have not the remotest idea. I am 
contented right here and would be restive elsewhere. Here I hope 
to spend the rest of my days. INIy place is a foot-hill home — back 
rise the mountains, in front the canon opens like a fan into the 
Santa Clara valley. It is the cream of the earth, and 1 am stirry 
for those who live elsewhere. I have not massed a fortune, but a 
good living that brings contentment. In this vicinity are some of 
the finest fruit ranches in the state, princiixilly 'prunes.' although 
there is quite a si^rinkling of apricots and peaches. The country 



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is very rich, and as a rule the rancliers are well to do. I am in 
good health, have a good conscience and a])petite. I regret that I 
have not Ijeen ahle to attend any of the class reunions, so I am all 
the more anxious to hear from the hoys through their hiographies. 
Apart from sickness I've had no misfortune, no accident nor 
calamities." 



Charles Ballenger, A.B. 
Died at Indianapolis, March 13, J88I. 

He was luirn near \\'illiamshurg, Wayne County, Indiana, 
September 28, 1846, on a farm where his father then resided, in 
his youth he attended the pul)lic schools at Williamsburg and 
Cambridge City. He spent one year at the L'nion School, Ann 
Arbor, prior to entering the Cniversity of Michigan in September, 
1866, with the class of "70. In college he took a leading position, 
being prominent in all class matters by reason of his genial 
affability, and l)eing an excellent and earnest student. I le was one 
of the speakers at the first Sophomore exhibition, also one of the 
speakers at jimior exhibition. Was a member of the Philozetian 
debating club and a member and president one }ear of the Literary 
Adelphi, and a member of the Students" Christian Association. 
He was graduated with his class in 1870. He then returned to his 
old home in Indiana and engaged as a teacher in charge of the 
schools at Economy, Ind., but resigned at the beginning of 1871, 
and took up the study of law. In September, '71, he entered his 
brother's law office at Cambridge City, Ind. Plis brother died in 
July, '72. Charles Ballenger carried on the business until Septem- 
ber, 1874, when he decided to remove to Indianapolis, Ind. There 
he formed a law partnership with D. M. Bradbury. The firm con- 
tinued until the spring of '78. From this time on until his death 
Mr. Ballenger had no partner, Init was in the enjoyment of a lucra- 
tive practice. He had attained an excellent standing at the Indian- 
apolis bar and was rapidly gaining friends and clients when his 



12 Class of '70. University of Michigan. 

health g-avc way in 1880. and he decided to seek rest and quiet, first 
in Michigan, then at his father's home in Wayne County. Ind., 
and finally in Florida. He continued to orow weaker in the 
southern climate until he could speak only in a whisper. His 
physician informed him that his recovery was doulitful and that 
if he wished to see his family again he would have to start for 
home at once, which he did ahout March ist, 1881. He was en- 
tirely alone in the early part of his sad journey homeward, hut, 
fortunatel}' for him, he happened to meet on the train Mr. W. H. 
H. i^Iiller, afterwards Attorney General of the United States, who 
lived in lndiana])olis and who at once took Ballenger in charge and 
accom])anied liim home to his famil}-, stopping on the way several 
days at Nashville for rest. But Ballenger was too low to with- 
stand the rapid progress of the disease, consumption, which termi- 
nated his life March 13th, onl}- six days after he reached his home 
and family. His death was a severe shock to his family and 
friends, and especially to his classmates, who had the highest re- 
gard for him as a man. They knew him to he a person of unusual 
promise — faithful, kind, industrious, ahle, ever ready and willing 
to assist and to sympathize with those in trouhle and quick to 
recognize and respond to acts of friendship on the part of others. 
All who knew him were his friends. Air. W. 11. H. Miller said of 
him: "1 met Mr. 15allenger at Alontgomerv, Ala., on the train, re- 
turning home alone to die — fully realizing his condition, and 
scarcely ahle to speak even in a. whisper, it afforded me a melan- 
choly pleasure in l)eing a])le to render him such assistance as I 
could." 

The Bar of Indianapolis adopted the following: 
Death has again invaded our ranks and taken from our midst 
our friend and l)rother, Charles Ballenger, who died in this city 
Sunday, March 13, 1881. 

Mr. Ballenger was a man whose character and characteristics 
were in ever\- \\a\' worthv of imitation. lUessed with fine percep- 
tions, he neglected no opportunity of improving them by cultiva- 
tion. He was a praduate of the Universit\- of ^ylichigan; he en- 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 13 

tered the legal profession about eight years ago, removing to this 
city from Cambridge City, Ind. Whilst, In' reason of his innate 
modesty, he came slowly to the front, he was nevertheless recog- 
nized by those who were fortunate enough to know him as a 
lawyer of keen and clear perceptions and of a thortjughlv analvtic 
mind. But he did not rely upon these. He made thorough 
preparation both of the law and the facts in every matter in which 
he was professionally engaged. He was no mean adversary, 
though modesty and delicacy marked his every action. 

As a man he was above reproach. His name while among us 
has received no taint. 

He died as he lived, with an unsullied character, and has left 
to his family and friends the priceless heritage of a good name. 
He was a kind father, a good husband a patriotic and order-loving 
citizen and a staunch and faithful supporter of the Church with 
which he was allied. 

When a good man dies society suffers a loss. We feel the loss 
of our brother. Such a loss can only be compensated for by keep- 
ing alive the principles which he exemplified. 

To his bereaved and stricken family we extend our heartfelt 
sympathy, and recommend that the Chairman of the Bar Associa- 
tion present a copy of the memorial to the Courts of the County, 
with a request that the same be spread on the records, and that the 
Secretary be requested to present a copy to the familv of the 
deceased. 

Charles Ballenger married Miss Jennie Lamb, of Wayne Co., 
Ind., Aug. 25, 1870. Children : Walter Sylvester, class boy, born 
Atig. 12, '71 ; Earle, who died in February, ''j'j, aged i^ years. 

Mr. Ballenger was present at the presentation of the "class 
cups'" at our reunion in ^'j;i^, and accepted one on behalf of his boy 
in a very graceful speech. It is said his family was left in good 
circumstances. His son now ' resides with Mrs. Ballenger in 
Indianapolis. He is secretary of the Holt Ice & Cold Storage Co. 
in that city. ,^ 



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Class of 'yo, University of Michigan. 



Henry Hoyt Barlow, A.B. 
Coldwater, Mich. 

He was born June lo. 1850, 
at Hastings. Midi. His early 
ecliieation was acquired at Hast- 
ings in the pubHc schools, inchid- 
iii!;- the hii^h school. He entered 
the University of Michiq-an at 16 
years of aq'e with the class of '70. 
He Ix'canie a member of the 
Literary Adel])hi and joined the 
Psi L'psiUm fraternity and re- 
ceived appointment as one of the 
speakers al the "Junior Ex." 
After receiving- his degree with 
the class he was engaged during 
the greater part of a year in the 
mercantile business in which his father was interested. In the fall 
of 1871 he was appointed superintendent of the city schools at 
Hastings, lie occupied his leisure moments during the vear he 
filled this position in the study of law, and afterwards at Coldwater 
he continued his preparation for the legal profession. He was 
admitted to the bar of iMichig-an at Coldwater in September. 1873. 
From the first he has taken rank among- the best at the bar in his 
vicinity, and has faithfully autl conscientiously uiiheld the ethics 
of the profession and has deservedly achieved marked success. He 
is a widower with two children. Nathan and Burt. Xathan is a 
graduate of the Northwestern Medical College, and Burt will 
finish his law course at the I'niversity of Michigan in 1903. 




Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 15 




George Williams Bates, A.M. 

Detroit, Mich. 

It was the intent of Plutarch, 
as lie tehs us in the 1)esT;inning of 
his Hfe of Alexander, not to write 
histories, but only lives. It can 
be very properly said that this is 
not a history, but simjjly an ac- 
count of the life of one of those 
who helped to make the class. 
Someone has stated that "it is the 
slight occasion, the word, or some 
sport", which makes a man's 
natural disposition and manners 
appear more plain than the great 
deeds done. While great deeds 
may be lacking in a sketch of this 
character, there are many things which go to make up the every 
dav life of an individual, and when put together, make a very 
complete review of his personal characteristics. It is only intended 
in writing this sketch, to refer to such matters as give a fairly 
correct picture of the daily life of one who has lead a reasonably 
busy existence. This is an autobiography, and these sketches will 
be interesting as a history of the lives of individuals distinct from 
that of the class. 

The ancestors of Mr. George W. Bates came from England 
and formed a part of the Puritan settlement in Massachusetts Bay 
Colony, many of whom rendered public service in the Colony, 
either as soldiers in King Philip's War or as Deputies to the 
General Court. They permanently settled at Charlestown, Massa- 
chusetts, and Stamford and Saybrooke, Connecticut. He may 
thus very properly and justly claim descent from those representa- 
tive men, of whom Stoughton thus spoke, in referring to the settle- 
ment of America : 



16 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

"God sifted a whole nation, that he might send choiee grain 
over into this Wilderness; nay, more than that. He sifted for this 
pvirpose a whole race. Its settlers were not only of English blood, 
but of the old Aryan stock. All northern and western Europe bore 
rich marks of their Pilgrim feet ; and when they undertook to con- 
quer here, they had in their veins the courage, strength and man- 
hood, which had already conquered a score of Wildernesses like 
these." 

James Bates, the American paternal progenitor of Mr. George 
W. Bates, w^as the descendant of Thomas Bates of All Hollow,. 
County of Kent, England, who died in 1485, aged 75. James ist^ 
landed with his family at Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony 
in 1634. Two of his brothers, known as Clement of Higham and 
Edward of Weymouth, came to America about the same time. He 
was a man of prominence in Church and civil affairs and repre- 
sented his town in the General Court and was selectman for a 
number of years. Owing to church differences, Robert, the second 
son of James Bates, joined the Connecticut contingent led by the 
distinguished Thomas Hooker and the Rev. Mr. \\'areham and 
migrated to Connecticut in 1635, and in the following year, 1636^ 
settled the towns of Hartford, Windsor and \\'ethersfield, Robert 
Bates became one of the proprietors of Wethersfield. where he 
married Margaret, the daughter of William Cross, a soldier of the 
Pequot War, who participated in the "Xarragansett Swamp 
Fight," December 19th, 1637. and subsequently represented 
Wethersfield in the (leneral Court at Hartford. In 1639. owing, 
also, to his diff'erence with the sentiment which prevailed at 
Wethersfield, that church membership was a pre-requisite to the 
exercise of civil rights, Robert Bates entered into an agreement 
with others by means of which, they l^ound themselves under 
penalty to leave and to prosecute the design of a plantation and 
settle in Rippowan. This document was dated at Weathersfield, 
April loth, 1640. This colony was composed of some forty heads 
of families and proceeded to the region named, then under the 
jurisdiction of the New Haven Colony, purchased lands from the 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 17 

Indians, and the following- year became incorporated as a town 
under the name of "Stamford." adopting- a form for civil govern- 
ment, which permitted all reputable men to vote irrespective of 
church or religious convictions or belief. The name of Robert 
Bates appears as one of the signers of the Articles of Incorpora- 
tion. He died June 1 1, 1675. and l)v his will manumitted his negro 
slaves. 

Air. George W. 15ates may be said to have inherited, through 
the marriage of Robert with Margaret Cross, the blood of a soldier, 
and member of the General Court at Hartford ; through the mar- 
riage of Samuel, the son of Robert, with ]\Iary. the daughter of 
Robert Chapman, that of one of the founders of Saybrooke, a 
Deputy to the General Court, and the largest landholder in 1600 in 
that portion of Connecticut. Through the marriage of John 2d, 
the grandson of Robert, with Elizabeth, daughter of Gershom 
Lockwood. he established his affinity to the family of the Rev. 
Peter Buckley and to Gershom Lockwood. the soldier, judge and 
legislator of Greenwich, Connecticut. Through the marriage of 
John 2d to Sarah Selleck, he inherited the blood of the Golds, of 
Richard Law, a distinguished jurist of early Connecticut ; and in 
the person of Jonathan Selleck, father of Sarah, that of a brave 
Indian fighter, liberal churchman and a sagacious legislator. By 
the marriage of Gershom Bates ist, also a descendant of Robert, 
with Alary, the daughter of Jacob Smith, of Greenwich, there was 
also added a patriotic strain of a noted soldier, one of Washing- 
ton's favorite and trusted scouts ; and also, that of the Weeds, of 
Connecticut and New York, from whom descended Nathaniel, the 
wealthy wholesale merchant of New York, 75 years ago, and 
Thurlow Weed, the friend of Lincoln. Through the union of 
Gershom Bates 2d with Hannah Bucknam, came the Stowers and 
Spragues, whose names appear on the first recorded legislation bv 
the Selectmen of Charlestown. 1630, and also a strain of the Tut- 
hills. Knights, Peabodys and Knowles. And through the marriage 
of Samuel Gershom Bates and Rebecca Williams, in addition to all 
the foregoing, brings a strain of the blood of the Rev. John 



18 Class of "70, University of ^Iiciiigan. 

Robinson, pastor and founder of the Pilgrim Church at Leyden, 
Holhind, 1616. the parish church of the Pilgrim Fathers, the 
Lathams of New London, the Hamlins of Haddam, the \\>eks of 
Dorchester and Clochester, with Roger \\'illiams of Dorchester, 
1635, first Selectman, then Deputy, also a member of the Ancient 
and Honorable Artillery of P.oston. and sul)sequently Deputy, 
representing Windsor in the General Court at Hartford. This 
Roger Williams was the paternal progenitor of Rebecca Williams, 
came to Connecticut in 1632. and some authorities state, was a 
cousin of Roger \\'illiams of Rhode Island. The similarity of 
characteristics would seem to confirm the statements. He was a 
man of wealth and education, was Selectman. Deputy Grand Jury- 
man and occupied a high social position both in Alassachusetts and 
Connecticut. 

James Bates and Roger Williams, the progenitors of the 
paternal and maternal lines of ancestry of Mr. George W. Bates, 
left their native land at about the same time, and for the same ob- 
jects ; both settled in Dorchester and were both recognized as 
leaders in the church, social and governmental aiTairs of the New 
Colony. They represented their town in the General Court and as 
selectmen on the town board at aljout the same period. James 
Bates remained at Dorchester until his death, while Roger 
Williams removed to Windsor. Connecticut, because of the dis- 
sensions in the church, and the attempt of the controlling element 
to dictate his religious convictions. The early death of James 
Bates evidently prevented his going with the same colony to 
W'ethersfield. because he also held to the belief that church and 
civil aft'airs sln)uld be administered separately. Roger \\'illiams 
acc[uired a large landed interest in Windsor, became Deputy to the 
General Court at Hartford, where he remained until the death of 
his wife. Then he returned to Dorchester and married Lydia 
Bates, the youngest daughter of James P>ates. They were both 
actuated by the same principles in leaving the ease and luxury 
which their means enabled them to enjoy in England, for the dis- 
comforts and privations of the "American Wilderness," that they 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 19 

might exercise those privileges and imnuinities which we now 
deem the most sacred and which are found to he the same dominant 
sentiments in tlieir descendants through successive generations. 

Mr. George WiUiams Bates was horn in Detroit, Michigan, 
Novemher 4th. 1848. His father, Samuel Gershom Bates, was 
born in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Gershom Bates, a lineal 
descendant of Robert Bates and of Hannah Bucknam, the latter of 
whom is a descendant of the Bucknams of Maiden, and of the 
Spragues and Stowers of Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was 
by occupation a merchant, and died x\pril 30th, 1874. His mother, 
Rebecca Williams, was Ijorn in Sayl)rooke, Connecticut, a descend- 
ant of Roger Williams, the daughter of Hamlin Williams, and of 
Patience Latham, the descendant of Carey Latham, the founder of 
New London, Connecticut. She died July 12th, 1886. His 
primary education was commenced in a private school, and was 
afterwards completed in the public schools of Detroit. It was his 
good fortune to take his high school training under the instruction 
of the two distinguished professors, Henry Chancy and Elisha 
Jones, the former of whom was a graduate of the University of 
Vermont, and the latter of the University of Alichigan, two of the 
leading teachers of ^Michigan. The former was the principal, the 
latter taught Greek and Latin. Elisha Jones afterwards took the 
chair of Latin language and literature and estalilished the Elisha 
Jones Scholarship in the University. 

Mr. Bates was a classical student. It can be truthfully said 
that among the most pleasant and profitable experiences of his 
student life were those in this school. Then the Detroit High 
School had 75 students. To-da\- it has three separate schools and 
has 2,400 students. Co-education an.d the higher education of 
women were settled at this time by the admission of girls to the 
high school, and were afterwards settled in the state by their 
admission to the L^niversity in 1869. 

He entered the classical department of the L^niversity of Michi- 
gan in September, 1866, in the class of 1870. Prior to this time 
he had taken sreat interest in the athletic eame of cricket. On 



20 Class of '70. University of [Michigan. 

his adniission to the university, he found that l^ase h^\\ had not yet 
taken a hold on the students, but that the game of cricket was its 
chief athletic exercise. It thrived in 1866-7. but it soon disappeared 
and has never since returned as a college sport. As a Freshman, 
he enjoyed the distinction of having been on the '"University 
Eleven." One year he played with the "University Nine," but 
soon afterwards ceased to patronize the "diamond." And in after 
years was greatly interested in aquatic sports. He was among 
those who spoke at the first Sophomore exhibition held in the Uni- 
versity. He continued with the class during its four years course, 
and graduated with it in June. 1870. It was his privilege to 
be under the instruction of Professors Henry S. Frieze and James 
R. Boise, who then held the chairs of Latin and Greek languages 
and literatures, respectively, two of the most accomplisehd classical 
scholars in the country. On the resignation of Professor Boise, 
Professor Martin L. D'Ooge succeeded him. and still holds the 
chair of Greek in the University. This was the first class with 
which Professor D'Ooge read Demosthenes. He is the single 
link that connects this class with the University of thirty years 
ago. 

Professor James C. Watson, the famous astronoiuer, was also 
a member of the University at this time. ]\Ir. Bates was also a 
member of Alpha Xu. then the leading literary society, and of the 
'"Philozetian," a senior debating club. There was peculiar interest 
in the "Philozetian." It met every Satiu^day night during the sen- 
ior year, where the "five minute" rule ]:»revailed. Xo speec^^i under 
any circumstances was allowed to continue beyond this limit, while 
all were compelled to speak. This method was evidently borrowed 
from that pursued at Longwood. Pennsxlvania prior to i860, 
where, in a little building erected on the country estate of Bayard 
Taylor, the novelist, many of the most advanced thinkers of the 
day made addresses. All were limited to five minutes, and it made 
no dift'erence whether the speaker happened to be \\'endell Phillips, 
Henry Ward Beecher or Charles Sumner, this rule was rigidly 
enforced. There the most advanced ideas of the times were pro- 



Department ok Literature, Science, and Arts. 21 

mnlgated by the best thinkers. The anti-slavery movement found 
its most enthusiastic supporters in these dehberations. No doubt 
thev had great influence in moulding public sentiment on this 
question, Init whether so or not, it provided the occasion and place, 
where the best thought of the day was expressed. Whether the 
originators of the "Philozetian" had in mind the method pursued 
in this rural hall of discussion in Pennsylvania or not, history does 
not record. The rule, however, was adopted and the "five minute'' 
speech was at times the raciest exhibition of thought during the 
college course. Some of the most heretical doctrines therein an- 
nounced would have done honor to the great anti-slavery orators, 
free thinkers, and socialists, that held sw^ay at the Bayard Taylor 
resort. Perhaps the little stone "jug" had something to do with 
the inspiration manifested on these occasions. As a school of 
debate, the "Philozetian" was without its equal in the University; 
and those who attended its meetings, can look back to it as one of 
the most enjoyable and profitable experiences of their University 
life. 

The "Chapel" speech also prevailed at this time. Then the 
whole literary department w as shut up in the old law- lecture room, 
which was filled to its limit each Saturday morning, to hear the 
wisdom expounded by the seniors. Acting President Frieze was 
the presiding ofiicer. He presided w'hen Mr. Bates delivered 
his "Chapel" speech. It was thought by himself that he had made 
a great impression, particularly upon the learned President. But 
to his astonishment, he was asked by him shortly afterwards, if 
he expected to make his "Chapel" speech; and on being told that 
he had made it some weeks before, the absent-minded President 
declared that he had in fact forgotten it. It was quite evident, 
however, that he had not the least recollection of it. 

The degree of A.B. was conferred upon him at the age of 
twenty-one and in June, 1873, he was given the degree of M.A. 
The first occupation in which he was engaged after leaving the 
university was that of taking the school census for a part of 
Detroit; and in the fall of 1870 he was employed by the publishing 



22 Class of '70, University of Michk^an. 

liouse of James R. Osgood & Co. of Boston, as their subscription 
agent at Detroit for their ilhistrated paper, "Every Saturday," 
which \vas at that time one of the leading- illustrated papers in this 
country, if not in the world. He continued in this work until 
October, 1871. when he commenced the study of law, by entering 
the law offices of Newberry, Pond and Brown, then one of the 
leading law firms of Detroit. Henry B. Brown of this firm was 
soon afterwards appointed Judge of the I'nited States District 
Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and became later one 
of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Ashley 
Pond, also of this firm, subsequently became the general solicitor 
of the Michigan Central Railroad. In Eebruary, 1872, he was con- 
nected with the law firm of Meddaugh and Driggs. Elijah W. 
Meddaugh afterwards became general solicitor of the Grand 
Trunk Railway. He was admitted to the bar in June, 1874, and 
on December 4th of the same year opened his office for the practice 
of law in Detroit. From that time to the present he has been 
engaged in a general practice. This has been almost wholly civil 
in its character, although he has occasionally been engaged in 
criminal cases. He has been essentially a trial lawyer, has had 
large experience in chancery matters and in the management and 
settlement of estates. That of the late James B. Wayne was settled 
by him. Among the many notable cases in which he has been 
engaged may be mentioned Bellair vs. Wool, 35 Mich.. 440 ; Craw- 
ford vs. Hoeft, 58 Mich., 1 ; The King Will Case, 93 Mich., 234; 
Johnson vs. Powers. 139 U. S.. 156; Lloyd vs. Hollenbeck, 98 
Mich., 203; and Kimball vs. Ranney, 122 Mich., 160. 

It has been his good fortune to travel considerably. In 
February, 1881, he made a trip through the South, including 
Florida, Nassau on the Island of New Providence, made famous 
during the Civil War as the rendezvous for the rebel blockade 
runners; and the Island of Cuba. In September, 1886, he traveled 
through Canada, down the St. Lawrence, and up the Saguenay 
River to Chicoutimi. In the summer of 1888 he made a ninety 
days" trip through Europe. On May 30th he sailed from New 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 23 

York to Antwerp, Belgium, and there he visited the Antwerp 
Cathedral, celebrated for its lace-like construction, and saw the 
great painting of the "Descent from the Cross" by Rubens. Then 
to Brussels, where he visited the battlefield of Waterloo. Then to 
the Hague, visiting the 'Tiouse in the Woods," where Motley 
wrote his "Rise of the Dutch Republic" and which was also the 
meeting place of The Hague Peace Conference. Here he saw the 
celebrated painting, known as Paul Potter's "Bull," and also Rem- 
brandt's "Anatomy." Then to Amsterdam. Then to Cologne, up 
the Rhine to JNIainz. Then to Frankfurt, where he visited the 
memorial house of Goethe, the poet. Then to Heidelberg and the 
Castle. Then to Berlin, where he visited the Schloss Palace, made 
famous as being the residence of Frederick the Great and also San 
Souci, the suburban home of the great Frederick. This was the 
day before the coronation of Kaiser Wilhelm, whom he saw to- 
gether with his suite on their way from Potsdam to the Palace. 
The next day he witnessed the State procession of the nobility of 
Germany on its way to the coronation of the young Emperor. Then 
to Dresden and Munich. He made a trip through Switzerland, 
visiting Lucerne, Regi Kulm, the Lakes of the Four Cantons, and 
the St. Gothard Tunnel. Then to Italy, where he visited Bellagio 
and the Italian Lakes, and Milan. There he saw the beautiful 
cathedral of Milan, and De Vinci's "Last Supper." Then to X'enice 
and Florence, where he visited the memorial house of the cele- 
brated Michael Angelo, the sculptor, and the Tomb of the Medici. 
Then to Rome, Naples, Pompeii, Pisa, and Turin. Returning by 
the celebrated Mt. Cenis Tunnel to Switzerland, he visited Geneva, 
Chamonix, passed over the Alps to Martigny, near the point where 
Napoleon crossed the Alps, when he made his celebrated march 
into Italy. Then to Lusanne, and stopped at Hotel Gibbon, where 
Gibbon wrote his "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." Then 
to Paris, \>rsailles, London, Stratford-on-Avon, visiting both the 
birthplace and grave of Shakespeare, Kenilworth, the scene of Sir 
Walter Scott's novel of that name, and Warwick. Then to Mel- 
rose, Abbottsford, the home of Scott, Edinburgh, where he visited 



24 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

Holyrood Palace, the home of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Edin- 
burgh Castle, where her son, James A'L, afterwards James I. of ' 
England, was born. Then over the Scottish Lakes by way of Loch 
Lomond to Glasgow. Then to the English Lake District, where he 
visited Ridal-Mount. the home of the ])oet Wadsworth. also the 
home of George Eliot, and that of Ruskin at IJrantwood. Then to 
Liverpool, where he sailed September 5th for New York. 

He read, before the Annual Convention of the Commercial Law 
League of America, at Asbury Park, July 28, 1899, ^ paper on the 
" Negotiable Instruments Law." It was afterwards printed by the 
National Conference of Commissioners on "Uniform Legislation," 
and presented to the Judiciary Committee of the Legis- 
lature of Michigan in support of the Negotiable Instrtmients Law. 
Among his literary productions, there may l)e mentioned, papers 
on "The French Alliance," "The Patriots and Loyalists of the 
Revolution," "Greek Eloquence," "The Italian City States," and 
the "Pro-Slavery A'iews of Daniel Webster." These were de- 
livered before literary societies with which he was connected. He 
also read a report on the "Historical Work of the Sons of the 
American Re\'olution," before the National Congress of the 
Society held in the city of Washington, May, ic;o2. 

He has been greatly interested in all social, moral and educa- 
tional matters. While he has never held political office, except 
that of estimator-at-large for Detroit, he has been a delegate to 
several Reptiblican state conventions, and taken active part in the 
politics of his city and county. He was a candidate for attorney 
general before the Republican state convention at Grand Rapids 
in 1894. He is president of the Detroit Archaeological Society: a 
councillor of the Archaeological Institute of America ; is Historian 
General of the National Society, and Registrar of the Michigan 
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution ; is one of the 
Commissioners from j\Iichigan,for promoting Uniformity of Leg- 
islation in the United States; is a member of the American Scenic 
and Historic Preservation Society of New York City ; is a member 
of the New Encfland Societv, and the Universitv Club of Detroit ; 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 25 

also a member of the Detroit, Michigan and American Bar Asso ■ 
ciations : a member of Oriental Lodge, No. 240, F. & A. M.; a 
memlier of King C}tus Chapter. No. 133. R. A. AL ; a member of 
the Michigan Sovereign Consistory and a Noble of Moslem 
Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. 

On April 26th, 1887, he married INIiss Jennie ■Marie Fowler, 
danghter of the late Richard Esselstync Fowler of Detroit, a 
descendant of William Fowler, who with John Davenport, founded 
New Haven, Connecticut, and also of the distinguished Revolu- 
tionary General, Goosen A'an Schaick, of Albany. His children 
are Stanley Fowler Bates, aged 13, and A'irginia Williams Bates, 
aged 5. 

It is a natural reflection that in reviewing one's life, he is in 
efifect reviewing the lives of all his fellows, with whom he has been 
associated in the past, as the life of one is in its general aspects the 
life of all. The recollection which most impresses itself is that of 
the "boys" of former days. The retrospect covers but a limited 
period of time, although it eml)races more than a third of a century. 
The span of intervening years has but little effect to dim the 
"picture" of the distant past. This youthfulness seems perpetual ; 
and although the "dial" is fast marking up the passing vears. noth- 
ing can o])scure these recollections ; nor can one think that "any 
•old fellow has got mixed up with the boys." Oliver Wendell 
Holmes, in his poem to "The pjoys." addressed to the class of 
1829, in Harvard, some thirty }ears after graduation, thus speaks 
of his old associates : 

Yes. we're boys, always playing with tongue or with pen ; 

And I somtimes have asked. Shall we ever be men? 

Shall we always be youthful, and laughing and gay, 

Till the last dear companion drops smiling away? 

Then here's to our boys, its gold and its gray ! 

The stars of its winter, the dews of its May ! 

And when we have done with our life lasting toys, 

DEAR FATHER, take care of Thv children. THE BOYS ! 



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Class of '70, University of ^riciiiaw. 



Woostcr Woodruff Beman, A.M. 

Ann Arbor, Mkh. 

He \vas l)orn May 28, 1850, at 
Southinqton. Vlartford Co., Conn, 
llis father. Woodruff Henian. an 
expert inaehinist and amateur 
nmsieian, was a deseendant of 
Simon IJenian, one of the early 
settlers of Spring-field. Mass., 
where he was married in 1654. 
llis mother, Lois jane Neal,. 
traees her deseent to Edward 
Xeal, an early settler of W est- 
tield, Alass., who died there in 
i(h)S. In 1859 the family moved 
to \ alparaiso. Ind., where the son 
reeeivecl his preparatory training 
in the male and female eollege, and the Collegiate Institute, from 
the latter of whieh he was graduated in June. 1865. In Septem- 
her of the following year he entered the Cniversity of Aliehigaiu 
He stood high in all his elasses in eoUege ami reeeived appointment 
as one of the speakers at the Junior exhilntion ami also at Com- 
mencement, June, 1870. on which occasion he delivered a Latin 
oration. He received the degree of A.B. in 1870. and of A.M. in 
1873. Lie was instructor in Greek and mathematics at Kalama- 
zoo College in 1870-71. In June. 1871. he was eleetetl to a posi- 
tion in the l^niversity of ^Michigan, where he has served con- 
tinuously ever since: as instructor in mathematics from 1871 to 
1874; assistant professor of mathematics froiu 1874 to 1882; as- 
sociate professor of mathematics from 1882 to 1887. and pro- 
fessor of mathematics in charge of the department since 1887. 
He is a felknv of the American Association for the advancement 
of science, and was vice-president and chairman of Section A in 




Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 27 

1897. His vice-presidential address was translated into French 
iiv jNI. Berdelle and |nil)lished in L'Enseignenient IMatheniatiqne. 
He is also a meml)er of the London Mathematical Society and the 
Deutsche Matheniatiker-Vereinigung-. He has written for the 
Analyst, Educational Notes and Queries. The Academy, Bihlio- 
theca Mathematica, and the Ihilletin of the American ]\Iathe- 
matical Society. 

Li connection with Professor David Eugene Smith, of 
Teachers' College, Columljia L'niversity, New York, he has pre- 
pared a series of mathematical text-hooks puhlished hy Ouinn & 
Co., of Boston : Plane and Solid Geometry, New Plane and Solid 
Geometry, Higher Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Academic 
Algebra, and I'amous I'roblems of Elementary Geometry (from 
the German of Klein), a College Algebra, to be published l)y the 
same firm, is nearly ready for the printer. The Open Court Pub- 
lishing Co., of Chicago, has published for Professors Beman and 
Smith a History of Elementary Mathematics { from the German 
of Fink) and Geometric Exercises in paper folding, an author- 
edition of the work by Sundara Row, originally published in 
Madras, India. The same firm published for Professor Beman 
his translation of Dcdekind's two classic essays on the Theory of 
Numbers. For two years Professor Beman was president of the 
Ann Arbor Citizens' League, and since 1893 he has been treasurer 
of the Baptist Convention of the State of Michigan. 

He married Miss Nellie E. Burton, of Kalamazoo, ]\Iich., Sep- 
tember 4th, 1877. Their daughter. Miss Winifred E. Beman, was 
graduated from the L'niversity of Michigan with the degree of 
A. B. in 1899, and received her A.M. degree in '01. During the 
year 1901-2 she was professor of history in ^lilwaukee-Downer 
College. Their son, Ralph Beman. is now pursuing a course of 
study in the University of Michigan. 



28 Class of '70, University of JNIichigan. 

Judson Slatford Bird^ C.E. 
Died, "Washington Co., Kan., March J9, J882. 

Born at Ann .Vrl)or, ~\lich.. October 9, 1846. His father's name 
was John C. Bird and his mother's name was Jane Bird, nee Slat- 
ford. Judson hved with his parents on their farm near Ann Arbor 
until he finished his course at the university. He prepared for col- 
lege at the Union School, Ann Arbor, and entered the University 
of ]\Iichioan in September, 1866, with the class of '70. After 
graduation he entered into the business of making and publishing 
maps of different cities, with Jackson, Mich., as his headquarters. 
His classmates. Mickle and Waters, were interested with him. In 
June, 1871, he was appointed city engineer of Jackson, and was 
sent on a tour of inspection to the principal cities in the East. He 
also engaged in architecture and bridge building. During his term 
of office the present grade of the streets of Jackson was established. 

In the fall of '"jz he went to Texas to engage in government 
work as assistant U. S. engineer and made a survey of Trinity 
river. Returned to Jackson the following April and entered into 
partnership with ]\lr. ]vlickle in the business of bridge building 
and general engineering and architectural work. In '74, he again 
engaged in making maps, and, in connection with this work es- 
tablished a lithographic publishing office at Jackson. In Xovem- 
ber, '76, he went to Kansas to continue the n.iap making business. 
In 'yj, he removed his family to Kansas with the intention of mak- 
ing the West his permanent home. His business increased rapidly 
there until his work extended over ten counties in Kansas and five 
in Nebraska. At the time death summoned him he had well nigh 
completed an atlas of Doniphan Co., Kan., and had laid out for 
himself two wears' work in Southern Iowa. His last illness was 
very brief. On the morning of ]\ larch 4, '82, he started with his 
corps of workmen to complete work that he had commenced in 
Washington Co., Kan., about 130 miles west of his place of resi- 
dence, bidding his wife and children good-bye. they little dreaming 
it \ras the last time thev were to hear his voice. He was engaged 



Depart]ment of Literature, Science, and Arts. 29 

at his usual work until March 13th, when he experienced a slight 
chill. The following' day he remained in l)ed until noon, l)ut was 
out attending to business in the afternoon. The next day a physi- 
cian was called, but he saw no cause for anxiety. During that 
day and the next his sickness seemed slight and he felt so much 
better on the T6th that he said he thought he would be able to re- 
turn home to his wife and children the next day. Those were his 
last words, spoken in the evening. He fell asleep naturally, the 
man in attendance upon him not being disturbed dtnnng the night. 
Early on the morning of March 17th Mr. Bird was found in an 
unconscious state and unable to speak ; not in a stupor, but sitting 
up in bed. His wife was summoned by telegraph, she reaching 
him the morning of the i8th and finding him very sick with cere- 
bro-spinal meningitis, his throat being paralyzed. During the day 
some of his symptoms were favorable, but that night he sank into 
a stupor and grew gradually worse until 8 p.m., March 19th, 1882, 
when his spirit passed awa_\ without a struggle. The remains w^ere 
taken to x\nn Arbor for burial. 

In January, ''/;i^, Mr. l>ird married Miss Mary E. Sears, she 
then being preceptress of the high school in Jackson, Mich. Chil- 
dren : John Charles, born November 6, '73, and a daughter, Eliza- 
beth, born April r, 1878. 

John C. Ijird received his early education in Jackson, being 
graduated from Jackson High School with the class of 1890 in 
the English Course, taking two years of Latin and one of German 
extra. He entered the University of Michigan the same year, tak- 
ing a course in Mechanical Engineering. Was graduated from the 
university in 1894, with Stuart H. Perry, Erederick C. Noble and 
Ross C. Whitman, whose fathers are members of the class of '70. 
He married Miss Edith Davy, of Grand Rapids, Mich.. November 
2, 1899. He has been employed by various firms in Grand Rapids, 
Jackson, Providence, BuiTalo, Iloboken and Brooklyn as drafts- 
man, designer and assistant superintendent. At present he is 
making a specialty of steam pumping and sugar-making ma- 
chinery. His address is 2T^y Rodney Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



30 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

Elizabeth P>ird was graduated from the Jackson High School 
in the scientific course with th.e class of 1896, and was the class 
poet. She entered the normal school at Ypsilanti, ^Nlich., Septem- 
ber, 1898, and remained one year : taught one year in a primary 
school in Jackson County. ^Nlich., returning- to Ypsilanti Xorniai 
School, from which she was graduated in June. 1901. Is now 
teaching the 3d and 4th grades at Schoolcraft. ^lich. 

]\Irs. Mary E. Bird, widow of Judson S.. lives in the suburbs 
of the city of Jackson. ^Nlich.. in the house her husliand built the 
year following their marriage. She has been a faithful and de- 
voted wife and mother, giving her children just such an education 
as their father would have wished for them had he lived to see 
them grow to manhood and womanhood. 



Julius Abiram Blackburn^ M.A. 
Died at Manchester, Mich., April 25, 1876. 

Was born in the Township of Caines, Genesee Co.. ^Michigan, 
February 2T,, 1847. His father, John lUackburn, was born in 
Seneca Co., X. Y., February 13, 1821. The records of John's 
ancestry have not been preserved, but he probably came from 
mixed English and Dutch stock. He was the eighth child in a 
familv of twelve ; emigrated to ]^Iichigan with his father's family 
at the age of six ; was by occupation a farmer, also a cooper ; died 
in Ann Arbor, July 26, 1872. Julius A. Blackburn's mother, 
Almira ^I. Covert, was born in Seneca Co., X. Y., January 19. 
1823. Her ancestry was probably mixed, but chiefly Dutch. She 
was the oldest of six children and went to [Michigan with her 
parents at the age of fourteen ; married John Blackburn Septem- 
ber 3. 1841 ; died in Ann Arbor. June 15, 1869. 

Julius attended district school in his early boyhood and later 
the Ann Arbor Grammar School two years (^1860-62), and the 
Ann Arbor High School three years (1862-65). He enlisted in a 
cavalry regiment of ^lichigan volunteers in 186^ at the age of 18. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 31 

just prior to the close of the Civil \\'ar, Init was not mustered out 
\vhen the war closed. His regiment was ordered West to meet 
threatened Indian troul)les. He served out his term of enlistment, 
chiet^y at Fort ijridger. and returned via San Francisco and 
Panama in the spring- of 1866. 

Mr. Blackhurn entered the University of ^lichigan in Septem- 
ber, 1866, and continued with the class of '70 until his graduation. 
He was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity in college and a mem- 
ber of the L^niversity Glee Club, and was well known as pitcher of 
the base ball club. He was one of the speakers at our second 
Sophomore exhibition. 

After receiving his degree at the university he accepted the 
position of superintendent of schools at Channahan. PL, where he 
remained one year. He then became principal of Grammar School 
No. 20 in Buffalo, X. Y. 

He was married to APss Helen RoweStringham, of Ann Arbor, 
on August 14, 1872. Their only child, Helen lone, was born June 
I, 1874; died February 9, 1875. 

In September, 1872, Mr. Blackburn assumed charge as prin- 
cipal of the Lafayette (Bid.) PTigh School, which position he 
thenceforth filled until the time of his death at ^Manchester, APch., 
April 25, 1876. Pi the latter part of [March, 1876, being in failing 
health, his wife, at his request, took him to Manchester where, 
among familiar scenes and friends, he hoped to recuperate his 
strength, but all in ^^ain. His widow, in a recent letter, says : "The 
end came one morning at early dawn ; the birds were chirping and 
t\Nittering on the tree near our window ; he smiled in his old way 
and with a little fiash of the old time fun, Imt it was only a flash 
for he v.as soon unconscious again. P was just one month from 
the time we left Lafayette to the day I brought him back, and we 
laid him away from all the beautiful springtime sights and sounds 
which he had always loved with intensity. .As I look back at it all 
now it strikes me that he made a wonderfully heroic, unselfish 
fight against all odds — unselfish in his consideration for me. I 
cannot recall one petulant expression in all those davs of suft'ering; 



32 Class of '70. Uxiversitv of Michigan. 

alzivys sweetness and strength, courage for botli of us. It speaks 
well for a man's character when his ^\"ife can truthfully say that in 
the five years of married life and the four years of previous engage- 
ment, not one impatient word or thoughtless act can be recorded 
against either the lover or the husband." 

]\[rs. Blackburn says that her husband left her a rich legacy in 
the warm hearts of the people of Lafayette, who have never failed 
her in the darkest hours of her life. She was invited by the school 
board at Lafayette to take the position of teacher of literature in 
the high school, which was accepted by her in the fall of 1876. 
This position she has retained to the present time. 

IMr. Blackburn's ambition was to fit himself for and to enter 
the profession of law. He had m.ade plans to that end and had he 
lived he would doubtless have added luster to the reputation of 
the bar. His brother. Dr. Frank A. Blackburn, of the class of '68, 
JJ. of 'SI., is a professor in the L'niversity of Chicago. 



James Harrison Blanchardt A.B,, LL.B. 

Los Angeles^ California. 

He was born at Xiles, ^lich.. December 6, 1846. He attended 
the public schools, including the high school at Ann Arbor, and 
entered the L^niversity of Michigan in September, 1866. He pur- 
sued the regular four years course and was graduated with the 
class of '70. He then studied law in the office of Felch & Grant at 
Ann Arbor for two years, taking in the meantime the regular law 
course in the university, receiving his degree in 1872. During the 
summer of ''/2 he took up some special studies at Boston, !Mass., 
and in the winter of 1873 ^^^ decided to seek his fortinie in the far 
West. He located at Los Angeles. Cal., and commenced law prac- 
tice, at first alone, afterwards with [Marshall & Gould. Judge 
Alarshall subsequently retired and the firm became Gould & 
Blanchard. He is still practicing law in Los Angeles. His age is 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 33 

fiftv-five years and his hair is white, but he is full of life and feels 
as young- as on the day he left college. 

When asked to tell something about himself he replied : "Oh, 
the events of my life have been so common-place that a recital of 
them would not be likely to interest any one. My name has not 
been inscribed on the scroll of fame, am not rich in this world's 
goods, but believe I have some treasure laid up on the other side." 

We found him living in his own home, having married Miss 
Lucv U. Shackleford, formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio, a splendid 
woman, refined, well educated, and who has for years devoted all 
her energies to helping young people. He told us, "that was the 
most fortunate event in his life and can answer the question, 'is 
marriage a failure?' \\ith an emphatic no." 

\\ hen pressed to tell something about himself for the class he 
said : "Tell the boys of '70 that while I have not made a great 
success in life, as some measure success, yet I am contented, happy, 
my path is shining more and more unto the perfect day — yes, tell 
them 

"Every day brighter grows, 
And I conquer all my foes.' " 

Upon his arrival at Los Angeles he immediately identified him- 
self with the temperance cause and joined the Methodist Church. 
We were not surprised, therefore, to learn that he has l)een an 
ardent Prohibitionist all these years, and that his party has honored 
him by nominating him for high official positions. He is a can- 
didate on that ticket this year for Associate Justice of the Supreme 
Court. For four years he was editor and proprietor of the 
California J'oicc, the official organ of his party in that state. 

He told us to tell the boys, "that Jacob Beller who left college 
at the end of his Sophomore year to go to Bohn, Switzerland, came 
to Los Angeles sick with consumption and died at his home and 
rests in the little cemetery on the hill." 

Mr. Blanchard is treasurer of the Equitable Building and Trust 
Company of Los Angeles. 
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34 



Class of "to. University of ^Michigan. 




Clarence Morton Boss, M.E. 

Sudbury, Ont. 

He was born in the Town of 
Pittsfield. \\'ashtenaw Co., ]\Iich., 
January 2. 1850. His father, 
Randall Boss, was a farmer. 
Clarence passed the early part of 
his life on his father's farm. He 
attended the district school and 
tinished his preparation for college 
at Ypsilanti and Olivet. Mich. He 
joined the class of '70 in the Uni- 
versity of ^Michigan in the fall of 
1868 and was graduated with the 
class. Immediately thereafter he 
assisted Alaj. T. B. Brooke, Geol- 
ogist, in a geological survey of 
Marquette Iron region in upper ]\Iichigan. He made a topo- 
graphical survey of Champion mine. 2,- niiles west of ^Marquette, 
and also one of the Xew York mines at Ishpeming. He collected 
a large number of geological specimens from the entire iron region 
in upper Michigan and Wisconsin, returning to Ann Arbor in 
October, "70, to complete the maps of his work to accompany ]\Iaj. 
Brooke's report. He returned to Lake Superior in !March. "71. as 
assistant engineer on the Houghton & Ontonagon railway, with 
headquarters at L'Anse. Later he was division engineer until the 
completion of the road in 'y2. He was then employed as mining 
engineer for the ]\Iichigamme Company, and in the summer of 
'y^) l^e had charge of the construction of a tunnel and a system of 
railroad cuts in opening new iron mines. He severed his con- 
nection with the Michigamme Company in the fall of 1873, and 
engaged in a general practice of mine engineering in ^larquette 
Co. In 1876 he was occupied most of the time at the Republic 
Iron ]\Iine, making complete surveys of the mine, and superin- 



Department oe Literature, Sciexce, and Arts. 35 

tending the construction of a water power plant for compressing 
air, and erecting the line of pipe for its transmission to the mine, 
a little over a mile distant. At the time of its construction this 
was the largest plant of its kind in America. While engaged at 
this mine he was honored by a visit from Prof. DeVolson Wood, 
who took the trouble to climl) down to the bottom level of the 
mine at midnight where Mr. Boss was doing some surveying. 
This work was often done at night when there were but few men 
in the mine to interfere. 

In the late fall of 1876 he left the mining district and spent the 
winter with his father in Lower Michigan, and in the spring of 
1877 he engaged as a locomotive fireman on the Michigan Central 
Railroad. This was followed for about a year, then came several 
months in the boiler shops at Jackson, Mich., where a thorough 
schooling was had in the construction of locomotive boilers. He 
then returned to the road for a few months, when an ofTer was 
made to return to the mining tield again, and he entered the em- 
ploy of some gentlemen to conduct some explorations for iron in 
Canada, near Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. While engaged in this work 
he was in frequent association with Noble, Davock, Gilbert and 
others, who were then engaged in the construction of the canal 
locks and river improvement at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. He left 
this work in 1880 and went to Milwaukee, where he was engaged 
as division engineer in charge of the construction of the first 
division of the ^lihvaukee and Aladison branch of the C. & N.-W. 
Ry. between ]\Iilwaukee and Waukesha. On the completion of 
this railroad he returned to Michigan and relieved his father, who 
was then in poor health, of the charge of his farm. On October 
5th. 1882, he married Agnes B. Mitchell, of Oconto, Wis. 

Agricultural pursuits being too slow for his temperament he 
quit the farm in the fall of 1883 and engaged in the grocery busi- 
ness in Ypsilanti. This proved an unprofitable venture, and in 
the summer of 1885 he went to Chicago and entered the employ of 
the Chicago Edison Co. in the electric light business. He was 
engaged in the wiring of the city tunnels, theaters and other build- 



36 Class of "70, University of Michigan. 

ings. V\"as also sent to \\'ansan. Xeillsville and other places in 
Wisconsin to install lighting plants. The charms of the mining- 
camps were ever alluring him, and in the spring of 1886 he went 
to Bessemer, Alichigan, and engaged in his chosen profession. 
He soon became acquainted with all the mines and resources of the 
new Gogebic District, and in addition to ordinary mine surveying, 
he was in frequent demand as consulting engineer and expert in 
the examination of mining property, and in making reports. He 
w'as appointed inspector of mines for Gogebic County in 1890, 
which position he held until he left that district in 1896. He was 
elected the first jNIayor of Bessemer in 1889, re-elected in 1890. 
He managed to secure immunity from the cares of office during 
1 89 1, but was unanimously given a third term in 1892. 

In the summer of 1896 he was engaged as superintendent for 
the Franklin Iron Alining Co., with headquarters at \^irginia, 
Minn., in which position he had charge of a group of six mines, 
three at Virginia, one at Ely, Minn., and two near Hurley, Wis. 
This company ceased operations in the summer of 1898, and Boss 
engaged as assistant engineer of the Duluth, Masaba & Northern 
Railroad, and while in that capacity made a complete survey of 
that road and all its branches, with maps, etc., to replace records 
which were lost in a fire some time previous. In the spring of 
1899 he engaged as superintendent of the Great Lakes Copper Co. 
to conduct mining operations in the vicinity of Sudliury, Ontario. 
He remained with this company until Jime. 1901, when he re- 
signed and entered the employ of the Algoma Commercial Co. 
as a mining superintendent, and was placed in charge of the Elsie 
mine, near Sudbury, which position he holds at the present time. 

His family consists of a wife, a son, born July 25th, 1883, and 
a daughter, born November 17th, 1895. One son, born March 
25th, 1885, died at Bessemer, Mich., July 20th, 1894. 

Clarence M. Boss owns a pleasant home at Sault Ste. Marie, 
Mich., to which he moved his family from Duluth, Alinn., in the 
summer of 1899, that place oft'ering superior school facilities for 
his children. His married life has been very congenial, his only 



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37 



regret being that business conditions have required his being 
separated from his family so much of the time. However, he 
can enjoy pleasant monthl}- visits with them in his present posi- 
tion. 

Mr. Boss attended the class reunion in 1890, and he says that 
the pleasant recollection of the gathering is a great incentive to 
him to make strenuous effort to be present at the next one. 



Rev. Franklin Bradley, A.M. 
Orion, Mich. 

Franklin Bradley was l)orn in 
Chatham, a village ten miles south 
of Springfield, Dlinois, June 4, 
1845. His father, a native of St. 
Lawrence County, New York, was 
of New England ancestry. The 
American original of the family 
came from England in Cromwell's 
time. Some members of the 
family had place and influence in 
the colonial and later periods of 
our history. ( )ur classmate's 
mother, liorn in Cape jNIay Co., 
New Jersey, was the daughter of 
Captain Elias Hand, who raised 
and commanded a company of "Minute Men," a sort of home 
guard, during the distraction incident to the War of 1812. 

Circumstances compelled young Bradley to look out for him- 
self to a large extent from the time he was twelve years of age. 
Lie worked out generally at farm work for half of each year and 
attended school as he could the other six months. In the fall of 
1859, he went, by invitation, to make his home for a time with an 
uncle. Rev. Milton Bradley, Presbyterian pastor, at Richland, 




38 Class of '70, University of Michigax. 

Kalamazoo County. Michigan. This gave opportunity to attend, 
for several terms, Prairie Seminary, a popular academy of that 
day. One of the teachers was J. C. Burrows, now United States 
Senator. 

In 1863 Bradley attended the high school in Kalamazoo for 
three months, graduating there in June of that year. He was now, 
at eighteen years of age, prepared to enter the university, but 
destitute of the financial wherewithal. He therefore returned to 
Illinois and spent two years teaching, herding sheep, etc. Septem- 
ber, 1865, found him at Ann Arbor. The rigid examinations re- 
quired of all candidates at that time he successfully passed and was 
enrolled with the class of 1869. 

With Charles E. Otis, now a judge at St. Paul, for room-mate, 
and all the demands of university life to attend to, two years passed 
rapidly. Then came a year's absence, spent in Illinois in teaching. 
Returning in September, 1868, he became a member of the class of 
"70, to continue with them till graduation day. Those were happy, 
profitable years, with ^Marcus Baker for chum and associated with 
a class composed of such royal good fellows. The influence and 
memories of that fellowship have followed in the subsecjuent life, 
becoming more holy and helpful as the years have passed. 

He was a member of the Alpha Nu literary society and joined 
the Psi Upsilon fraternity. He was one of the speakers at our 
Junior exhibition. 

After graduation a position was secured as teacher in charge 
of the Greek and Latin department of Patterson's Classical and 
jNIathematical School in Detroit. During the year spent there 
several promising boys completed their preparation for the uni- 
versity and some for Eastern colleges. 

The summer vacation of 1871 was spent in a trip around the 
lakes and in Minnesota, meeting Noble, Gilbert and Tweedy while 
on the way. In the fall of 1871 he became principal of the Union 
School at Marine City, Michigan. \Miile there he decided what 
had often suggested itself before, that his life work was to be the 
gospel ministry. In September, 1872, he was accepted as a mem- 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 39 

ber of the Detroit Conference of the ]\Iethodist Episcopal Church 
and appointed as junior preacher on the Lexington circuit. Then 
followed pastorates at Port Hope, one year : ]\Iarysville, two years ; 
South Lyon, three years ; Henrietta and Napoleon, three years ; 
Oscoda, three years ; South Lyon, a second time, five years ; North- 
ville, two years ; Morenci, three years ; Grass Lake, five years ; and 
now, November, igoi, he is entering on his second year at Orion. 

In the 29 years of his ministry he has preached more than 4,000 
times, attended at least 300 fimerals, officiated at weddings 200 
times, besides attending to the many pastoral calls and special ser- 
vices. These have been busy, sometimes trying years, but filled 
with a consciousness of Divine guidance and approval. He would 
not have had them otherwise than they have been, except that they 
might have been used to a larger extent for a blessing to the com- 
munities where he has labored. At the close of his second pastor- 
ate at South Lyon, Rev. S. Calkins, a superannuated preacher, 
long a resident of that village, in writing for a local paper a history 
of that church, expressed himself as follows concerning the subject 
of this sketch : 

"Frank Bradley, yes, reader, I suppose you would say you 
know him, because he has been pastor here for eight years, and I 
have no doubt you would be willing to know him much longer than 
you have known him. because the longer you knew him the better 
you liked the acquaintance. You found out, almost in spite of 
himself, that he was a man of very fine natural and acquired 
abilities. Lie has good social parts, good preaching talent, good 
organizing method, in fact he is all around a well l)alanced man. 
But if you think he wears these on the outside as you would an 
overcoat, you will be disappointed. His finest qualities are not 
placed in a show window for the public to gaze at, they are only 
exhibited when necessary for some good purpose. Then they can 
be seen just as much as he is obliged to for the work in hand, no 
more. If this is a fault, he has it. I have sometimes wondered if 
it was a fault. He is a good and useful man. but will never elbow 



40 Class of "70. Uxiversity of ^NIichigax. 

his way or advertise himself to gain position. \\'e shall sing his 
praises here for what we know him to he." 

October 9. 1873. Franklin Bradley married [Nliss Elizabeth 
Folkerts. of Algonac. ^lichigan. They have two children. ]\Iarv 
Blanche, born June i. 1875. and Franklin Folkerts. born ]\Iay 28. 
1877. The daughter was graduated from Xorthville High School 
and later married Fred E. Osgood, of ^lorenci. They have three 
children. Dorothy. Bradley and Cassius. They live in Chicago, 
'Mr. Osgood having a position with Morgan and \\'right. The 
son. Franklin Folkerts, was graduated from IMorenci High School 
and from Albion College. He has made a specialty of chemistry 
and assaying and is now chemist in Morgan and ^^'right■s rubber 
factory, Chicago. He was married in Septemlier. 1901. to ^Nliss 
Zoe X. Smith, of Hillsdale, Mich. 

Mr. Bradley writes : "The years have passed with their varied 
experiences. It is a blessed thing to live, running the race set be- 
fore us. taking our place and doing our part as revealed to us. The 
hallowed memories associated with those whose hearts beat in 
sympathy with ours in the years of our student life ofttimes flood 
our minds like flashes of light with much of the old cheer and 
delight. May all the future years of every member of the class of 
'70 be filled with a sense of the Divine guidance and the repose of 
implicit trust in Him who loves us and gave Himself for us, and 
who plans for all a destiny glorious beyond our best conceptions." 



Thomas Harper Bush, A.B. 

Died at Cbicago, 111., March 29, 1887. 

He was born April 3. 1847, ^^ Tremont. near Pekin in Taze- 
well Co.. Illinois. His education prior to entering the Universitv 
of ]Michigan in 1866. was acquired at Pekin, Washington and 
Geneseo in the State of Illinois, at each of which places he resided 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 41 

for a time. He served his country as a soldier in the Civil War, 
in Co. K, 139th Reg't Illinois \'ol. Inf.. l>eing- only 18 years old 
at the close of the war. He pursued the full four years course at 
the university. He was a member of the Alpha Nu literary society, 
the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, the University Glee Club ; was 
one of the speakers at the first Sophomore exhibition and also at 
the Junior exhil)ition. Immediately after his graduation in 1870, 
he made a tour of Europe. He traveled through England and 
Wales on foot with two students from London ; crossed over to 
Dublin and visited many places of interest in Ireland ; went to 
Scotland where he unexpectedly met Prof. Martin L. D'Ooge, of 
the University of Michigan. After visiting Glasgow, Edinburgh, 
Sterling and Inverness, he directed his steps towards London, 
where he remained three weeks. He then went to Antwerp, 
Brussels, Cologne, Mayence and to Leipzig, where he remained 
four months attending lectures, studying German and liecoming 
acquainted with the social life of the people. March 7. '71, he left 
Leipzig, passed ten days at Berlin, ten at A'ienna, went thence to 
Trieste, thence Ijy steamer across the Adriatic to Ancona. Italy, 
arriving at Rome March 31. Passed a month at Rome, ten days 
at Naples, visiting A esuvius and Pompeii, and ten days at 
Florence. He then went north to Innsbruck, ]Munich, Lake Con- 
stance, Basel, Strasburg, arriving at Heidelberg June 12, where he 
stayed two months attending" lectures and studying French. j\Ir. 
Weisbrod, of "70. was there at the time. After a short trip on the 
Rhine, he joined with a numlier of American students in a walk 
through the Black Forest and Switzerland, spending a month in 
the passes and on the Alps. The party, among whom was Prof. 
D'Ooge, then separated near Lake Geneva. Bush went thence to 
Paris and after a stay of one week sailed for New York, where he 
arrived September 23, '71. 

After his return from Europe he entered upon the study of law 
at the L^niversitv of 3ilichigan. and later at Geneseo. 111., where he 



4-2 Class of 70, University of Michigan. 

studied in the law office of his uncle. • He was admitted to the bar 
in September. "73. and commenced the practice of bis chosen pro- 
fession in Chicago. He taught the German department of the 
evening school at "Foster School House" on the west side in 
Chicago, from October. '73. to January. "74. He roomed with 
jMaltman, of '70. for two years. From ]\Iarch. '~~, to ]\Iarch. ''j'^. he 
was in partnership with his classmate. S. K. \\'inchell. in the pub- 
lication of "The Educational \\'ee.kly," and from ^Nlarch. '"j"^, to 
[March. '83, he was employed by Mr. A\'inchell and part of the 
time acting as western agent of Thompson. Erown «S: Co., Boston, 
publishers of school books. In '83. he bought a portion of 
\\'incheirs printing office and set up a job printing- establishment 
for himself. He owned and pi;blished a monthly paper about two 
years. In July, '76. he and [Nlaltman, starting from Whitehall, on 
the east shore of Lake [Michigan, in an open row boat ( four oars 
and a sail), ran along shore north to the straits of [Mackinaw and 
up the St. [Mary's river to the "Soo." where they visited their class- 
mates. Noble and Davock. In July, '~%. in the same boat with a 
third companion, they ran from the "Soo" north along the shore 
of Lake Superior to Rousseau's Landing. In July, '79, in the 
same boat with a third companion, they ran from Death's Door 
(outlet of Green Bay) south along the east shore of Green Bay 
to the head of the bay and then up I'ox river and across Lake 
Winnebago to Fond du Lac. [Mr. Fjush was highly esteemed by 
all who knew him. He was energetic and upright and at the time 
of his death was building up a valuable business. He never mar- 
ried. He died suddenly of consumption, [March 29, '87, and was 
buried at (leneseo. 111. 



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43 



Patrick Henry Bumpus, A.B., M.D. 
Died at Devereaux, Mich,, February 18, 1898. 

Patrick Henry Bumpus was 

born at Ypsilanti, ^Michigan, Jan. 

jflB[g^' '%j. 21, 1841, and spent his early boy- 

j M hood at that place. His father 

I |B> was Henry Hamilton Bumpus, 

who was born at Nelson, Madison 
Co., N. Y., March 23, 1807; his 
grandfather, Isaac Bumpus, born 
on Long Island, X. Y.. December 
16, 1779; his great-grandfather, 
Seth Bumpus, born April 12, 
1755, and his great-great-grand- 
father, Salathiel Bumpus, of 
Massachusetts, born June 11, 
1722. It will be seen, therefore, 
that his ancestry runs Ijack to our Revolutionary Fathers. The 
members of the Bumpus family took an active and honorable part 
in the stirring and glorious events of those days, and they have 
since done their part in the rapid development of our country. His 
father, Henry Hamilton Bumpus, while at Xelson, X. Y., learned 
the shoemaker's and tanner's trade. Like most ambitious, sturdy, 
young men of those days, he had a desire to leave his native home 
and go toward the setting sun to seek his fortune. With very little 
money, each with an ax and an extra suit of clothes strung over 
the ax-handle, he and his brother, Samuel, started westward. In 
those days much traveling was done on foot. Having reached a 
small place in Chautauqua Co., X^. Y., Henry Hamilton Bumpus 
felt that he had gone a long way into the "Great West." In com- 
pany with others at that place, he engaged in the tanning business 
with success. After a few years he again started farther westward 
and located at Ypsilanti. ]\Iichigan, engaging in the boot and shoe 




44 Class of '70, Uxiveksitv of IMichigax. 

trade, and still holding- an interest in his tanning business in the 
State of Xew York. In i860, he went to Jackson, jNIich., where 
he became a manufacturer of boots and shoes, and also a retail 
dealer. He was a successful man in business. He also became 
owner of a tannery near Tecumseh, ^Michigan. He died wdiile on 
a visit to the State of Xew York, leaving a substantial property to 
his son and daughter. 

Patrick Henry Bumpus, when about 16 years of age. went to 
work upon a farm near Ypsilanti, ^lich., and at 21 he went to 
Jackson. ]\Iich.. to live with his father. Vp to this time had not 
been much at school. He determined to have an education and at 
22 he began to prepare for college at the Jackson Union School 
under very adverse circumstances. He desired to take a classical 
coiu-se, but at that time there were no facilities ofifered for such a 
course at the Jackson school. But with hard study under private 
tutors he and Chas. K. Dodge, partially prepared for a classical 
course in the University of Michigan. Ble went to Ann Arbor in 
the fall of 1865, entered with the class of 1869 in part, but in 
January, 1866, went to Ypsilanti. entered the Union school there 
and graduated in the class of 1866. He then entered the Uni- 
versity of ]Michigan in the fall of 1866 with the class of 1870. He 
joined the Literary Adelphi and the Philozetian, and was one of 
the speakers at the second Sophomore exhibition. Soon after 
graduation he married and went to Jackson to live. In 187 1-2 he 
attended the medical lectures at Ann Arbor. Afterwards farming, 
grocery business and other kinds of business were tried with 
various degrees of success. His marriage did not prove to be a 
happy one. and in 1876 he was divorced. He then again entered 
upon the study of medicine at the University of Michigan in the 
homeopathic department and was graduated in March, 1877. He 
practiced his profession at various places in ^lichigan. at Middle- 
ville, ]\Iason, Springport, Jackson Co.. Albion, Grand Station, 
Xewavgo Co., and Partello. Calhoun Co. During these vears he 



Department of Literature. Science, and Arts. 45 

took an extended trip West, visiting Cheyenne, Denver, and a 
nunil^er of ])laces in southern Nebraska. Not liking the West he 
returned to All)ion, where he worked up a good practice. After- 
ward he attended a course of lectures at Oberlin College with a 
view of entering the ministry. March 28, 1888, he married Eva 
Jane Boyd. His second marriage proved to be a very happy one. 
In 1896, on account of failing health, he gave up his city practice 
and moved upon a farm at Devereaux, jNIich. Here he had as 
large a practice as he could attend to. In Xovember, 1897, he be- 
came afflicted with an enlargement of the heart, and dropsy, and 
lingered till February 18, 1898, when he passed away, leaving his 
wife in comfortal)le circumstances. 

His only child, Clara jNIay, was born September 11, 1873, and 
died August 21, 1881. 

Patrick Henry Bumpus was a man of many sterling qualities 
and we all learned to love him. He was genial, social and kind. 
His sense of humor was fine. Possessed of a good memory he was 
fond of reading and repeating the best poetry of our language. 
In domestic life he was very indulgent, generous and kind. In 
his practice of medicine he was extremely conscientious. No one, 
whatever his circumstances, was ever refused medical assistance 
by him, nor his most faithful services. His passing away has been 
a great loss to the community where he lived, as well as to us, and 
we sympathize with his wife and sister, wdio survive him, in the 
great loss thev have suffered. 



46 



Class of 70, University of Michigax. 




Charles Francis Burton, A.M., LL.B. 
Detroit, Mich. 

"Was born in Romulus, in 
Seneca County. Xew York, on the 
8th day of Xovember, 1849. ^h' 
father was at that time teaching 
school, but later became a homeo- 
pathic physician, and is still living 
at Hastings, Michigan. ~Sly 
grandfather, came as a boy of 
seven or eight years with his 
father to the United States from 
Alanchester, England, in or about 
the year 1809, to Waterloo, New 
York, where he became a sur- 
ve_\-or and county lawyer, of whom 
it is stated that he was more than 
all. a student of mathematics, who would forget everything when 
intent upon the solution of a mathematical problem. On my 
mother's side. I can claim descent from \\'illiam Bradford, the 
first Governor of the Plymouth colony and from John Alason 
(Pequot Mason), who pacified the Pequot Indians in Connecticut 
in 1637. ]\Iy mother's name was Anna E. Munroe. and her descent 
on the maternal side was from the descendants of Bradford and 
Mason. Her family lived in Xew York, near Cayuga Lake, and at 
some little distance from the village of Seneca Falls. My mother 
died at Hastings in 1899. 

In 1850 or 1 85 1, my father removed from X'ew York to Battle 
Creek, in Michigan, where he continued to practice as a physician, 
and also founded and conducted for a time a paper which still con- 
tinues as the Battle Creek Journal. In 1853 he went overland to 
California, following the trail which is very nearly that of the 
Central Pacific Railroad, and made his first stop in California, in 
X'^evada County, at a place called Whiskey Diggings, a few miles 



DeparTxMent of Literature, Science, and Arts. 47 



from the villag-e of Gibsonville, just at the foot of what is known 
as Pilot's Peak. After one season in CaHfornia. he conchided to 
return to the "States" and started l)y the water Hue, taking passage 
on the Yankee-Blade, a steamer that ran from San Francisco to 
Nicaraugua. The steamer, when about two hundred miles from 
San Francisco, was purposely wrecked by a l)and of pirates who 
had shipped at San Francisco with the intention of wrecking her. 
and with the intention of robbing the passengers and the ship's 
safe, in which there was supposed to be a considerable amount of 
bullion. There were eleven hundred passengers on board, and of 
these quite a large numl)er were drowned in attempting to escape 
and many of them were murdered by the pirates because of their 
resistance to attempted robbery. I was at this time nearly five 
years old, and I have (piite a vivid remembrance of the scenes, 
especiallv of the sinking of the vessel which had struck upon a 
rock, and which during the interval between the striking, at one 
o'clock in the afternoon and the time when I was taken off the 
wreck at about eleven o'clock in the evening, was slowly breaking 
in tW'O, and the rear part was slowly settling into the w^ater, and 
I have a distinct remembrance of watching the main deck as the 
water rose over it. We had a two weeks' struggle for existence on 
the coast, living on shell fish and flotsam from the w-reck, and were, 
then taken back to San Francisco by a small coast steamer. There 
was another year's stay in the mines, and a return to the States in 

i8S5- 

My father settled at Hastings, in Barry County, and took up 

the profession of medicine, while I took up the occupations that 

interested a boy who lived on the edge of a small village and whose 

father combined a professional life with that of a farmer. I had 

in part the education of a farm life, to which was added excellent 

school advantages, in a school which during the latter part of my 

school education was conducted by an able teacher, who not only 

took pride in his school, but took especial pride in the first boys 

he prepared for the university, of which he was himself a graduate. 

After school life there followed the universitv course, in the literary 



4S Class of '70. Uxiversity of ^Iichigax. 

and afterward in the law department. During" the two rears of 
the law course. I supported myself by mathematical work for 
Prof. Watson, who was engaged in preparing data for a set of 
lunar tables. 

In the summer of '71 I was employed in the office of the United 
States Lake Survey in Detroit, in computing work and in testing- 
work on base line measuring apparatus. In the siunmer of 'j2, 
after graduating in the law department. I again entered the Lake 
Survey, and during that simimer assisted ^Ir. E. S. \\'heeler. to 
measure a base line near Fond du Lac in \Msconsin. Clark Olds 
was with this party. The following summer we remeasured the 
Kewenaw base line on Kewenaw point, about nine miles across the 
water from L'Anse. and twenty miles S. E. of Houghton. On my 
return to Detroit, in the fall of this year. I finally entered upon the 
practice of the law, spending a few months in the office of ]Mr. 
Alfred Russell, one of the leading members of the Detroit bar. 
]\Iarcli 3d. 1874. I was married to Miss ^lartha Ellsworth, of Ann 
Arbor, and in the fall of that year formed a law partnership with 
]Mr. George Gartner. The partnership lasted only about one year. 
I w as then for a short time alone and had begim to build tip some- 
thing of a practice, when ^^Ir. Russell asked my assistance in his 
office. I took a position with him and remained with him until 
1882. In the fall of 1882. I left ^Ir. Russell, and began to devote 
myself specially to patent law. and on January ist. 1883. formed a 
partnership with ^Ir. R. A. Parker, who had determined to take 
up the same branch of law. Our business increased to such an 
extent that in 1891. we bought out the library and business of ^Ir. 
A\'ells Leggett, and have added to it. especially adding a digest of 
patents which has been almost wholly under my charge, and is 
now complete to date. This is the only work of the kind that has 
ever been made, and my office is the only place in the world out- 
side of the Patent Office itself, where information relating to 
patents and patentable inventions has been arranged and classified. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 49 

This work has been Ions;" and somewhat expensive and lias been 
very entrancins^. My business has taken me over most of the 
Northeastern United States and Canada, but not South of the 
Ohio River or West of the ^Mississippi, althoug;h I have chents in 
all regions. 

It is now eighteen years that I have been employed exclusively 
in the ]M-actice of that l)ranch of the law which relates to patents 
and inventions, and in that eighteen years 1 have had occasion to 
meet very many of the aljlest attorneys in the United States, and 
have been called upon to travel over a large section of the country. 
One of the early cases that I was engaged in was an important 
one in a legal sense, because it determined the rights of a person 
as afifected by the mistake of the Commissioner of Patents, in the 
issuing of the paper granting i)atent rights, through some over- 
sight the Secretary of the Interior had not signed the ])aper which 
was issued as a supposed patent ; suit was brought upon this be- 
fore the failure to sign was discovered and after suit was brought 
and the fact was discovered, the paper was returned to the Patent 
Office and signed, it so happened that the same man, Mr. Carl 
Shurz, who had ])een secretary when the paper should have been 
signed, was then Secretary of the Interior, but there had been an 
interim between the time when the paper should have been signed 
and the time when it actually was signed, during which Mr. Shurz 
liad l)een out of office. I'he paper was actually signed by an 
assistant who had all the time remained on duty, as an assistant 
Secretary of the Interior, this brought up several very curious 
questions, all of which were decided in accordance with the con- 
tention I made, holding the paper to be a void paper. I think this 
is the most complicated legal question that I have been in, which 
has gone to the Supreme Court of the United States, but I have 
assisted in the argument before that court in several cases involv- 
ing considerable money and have argued or assisted in the argu- 
ment of quite a number of cases in the Court of Appeals. 



50 Class of "70, University of ^Michigan. 

In the business in which I have been engaged I have been 
brought into close connection with many different classes of men. 
and have seen some of them make rapid and large fortunes as a 
result of their invention and business capacity, I have had some 
opportunities to become interested in patents which subsequently 
brought large prices, but have as yet not succeeded in having any 
large interest when the price was realized. I have had disclosed 
to me a great many ideas, some of which seem to be extremely 
valuable, but the most of which were of no great value. 

At the present time the inventive mind is nmning more to con- 
structive details and to commercial development of ideas, and it is 
onlv occasionally that any one announces any radical advance, 
nevertheless, altogether the advance in invention during the time I 
have been interested in its study has been far greater than in any 
corresponding period in the history of the world, and it is alto- 
gether probable that the advance in the succeeding thirty years 
will far surpass that of the thirty years just past. It is impossible 
to foresee along what lines the advance will be made, as much so, 
as thirty years ago it would have been impossible to foresee that 
we would 1)e riding behind electrically propelled cars, speaking- 
over electrical conducting wires, and even speaking and com- 
municating through space wnth no connecting means except the 
unseen ether. It is probable there will be great advance in this 
science of electricity. 

Aly family consists of my wife and two daughters, one of 
twenty-one and the other of twenty-seven years of age at this 
writing, l)oth of whom were unable to fully complete their educa- 
tional course as I desired, because of their failure in health just 
at the time when they would have put the finish on, and I con- 
cluded that good health was even more valuable than graduation 
papers. They are both of them, however, of exceptional ability 
and will fill their alloted position in life with satisfaction." 



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51 



George Throop Campau^ A.B., LL.B. 
Died at Detroit, Mich., February 5, 1879. 

(Written by his sou Woolsey Canipaii.) 




George Throop Campau was 
born at Detroit. Mich.. July 29th, 
1847. On the father's side his 
ancestors were among the early 
French settlers who accompanied 
Cadillac, and assisted in founding 
Detroit. His paternal grand- 
mother was a member of the Mc- 
Dougall family to whom George 
III. of England granted Belle Isle 
in 1767 as a recompense for Capt. 
Geo. McDougall's military ser- 
vices. Alexander M. Campau, his 
father was a member of the first 
class at the University of Michi- 
gan. His mother's maiden name was Eliza S. Throop, a family 
distinguished in the political life of Xew York state in the first part 
of the century. Both parents are living in Detroit. Mr. Campau 
being engaged in the management of his estate. 

George T. Campau passed his boyhood in Detroit, graduating 
from the preparatory and high schools, and entered the University 
of Michigan with the class of '70. He was a prominent member 
of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He was one of the speakers 
at the first Sophomore exhibition, also at the Junior exhibition ; 
was one of the editors of the Oracle ; was a member of the Alpha 
Nu literary society. Two of his brothers attended the university 
at the same time. He was class orator at the graduating exercises, 
and unveiled the statue of Ijenjamin Franklin, which, till quite 
recently, was a landmark on the campus, and was class orator at 
the first reunion of the class in 1873. 



52 Class of '70. Uxiversity of Michigan. 



After graduation, in July. 1870. he went to Germany with the 
intention of taking a course of civil law at the University of Berlin. 
While he was on the ocean, the Franco-Prussian war broke out, 
and the German packet on which he was traveling, barely escaped 
capture by a French cruiser by running into Plymouth. During 
the first part of the war he had an interesting experience ; he was 
visiting a lady connected by marriage, the wife of Gen. von 
Steinecker, when the Queen, afterwards the Empress Augusta, 
who was an intimate friend of ^Madame von Steinecker, came out 
from Berlin to spend the day, both women having the same 
anxietv, as each had a husband and son at the front. The Queen 
liked the young man, and as the three were there alone, he was 
thrown with royalty on a more informal footing than often falls 
to the lot of a civilian. 

He was in Berlin during the first part of the war, but the clos- 
ing of the universities changing his plans, he returned and entered 
the Albany (X. Y. ) Law School, where he took his degree. He 
continued his law studies in the office of D. C. Holbrook, Esq., of 
Detroit, and later became associated as a law partner with H. L. 
Baker, Esq., and practiced his profession until his death, which 
occurred February 5, 1879. 

The Detroit Tribune of February 6, '79- thus speaks of him : 
•'George Campau, a promising young member of the bar died 
Yesterday. Alxjut two months ago he submitted to a surgical 
operation for an internal cancerous tumor. Already considerably 
prostrated by the ravages of the disease he withstood the effects 
of the operation quite as well as had been anticipated, and rapidly 
gained in strength thereafter. The wound healed apparently with 
success and there was every indication of his permanent recovery. 
He had become able to walk about and to ride out, and his friends 
looked happily to the future. But on Sunday he grew alarmingly 
worse, inflammation set in and he passed away at an early hour 
vesterdav. Deceased was a son of Alexander '\l. Campau. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 53 

He had obtained a standing- at the bar unprecedented for one 
of his years and experience. He had a fine mind, industrious and 
stuchous hal)its and al)ihties in argument lief ore a court or jury, 
which inchcated that he was to take rank among the first mem- 
bers of the bar. He was frank and manly in his bearing and had 
genial social qualities which made him a favorite wherever he 
went. His untimely death is a sad blow to his parents who had 
reason to take great pride in the promise of his future, and to his 
personal friends and professional associates by whom he was much 
beloved. He was enthusiastic in athletic sports, particularly in 
boating and was last year president of the Detroit Boat Club. The 
members of the Detroit bar took appropriate action relative to his 
death, and attended his funeral in a body." 

On April 24th, 1873, ^^^ married Miss Mary Livingstone 
Woolsey, daughter of Commodore Melancthon Brooks Woolsey, 
U. S. N., who was the son of Commodore Melancthon Taylor 
Woolsey, C S. N. They had four children, Melancthon Woolsey, 
born July 14, 1874; Alexander Macomb, born December 2, 1876; 
Elise, born January ly, 1878; and George Throop, born xA.pril 4th, 
1879. The two oldest sons were students at the university, and it 
may be interesting" to note in this connection, that almost the entire 
family for three generations have called Michigan their Alma 
Mater, a record which, at this date, has probably few parallels. 
After graduation in 1897 from the engineering department Wool- 
sey Campau took up his profession in Detroit ; Macomb Campau 
has for several years been a special agent of the Xorthwestern 
Mutual Life Insurance Co. at Detroit ; George Throop is in busi- 
ness in California ; and the widow and dausrhter reside in Detroit. 



54. 



Cl-ASS OF 70. UXIVERSITY OF ^IlCHIGAX. 




Oscar James Campbell, A.M., Ph.B., LL.B. 
Cleveland, O. 

CJscar James Campbell was 
born April 27. 1846. at Cuba, Xew 
^ ork. His forefathers belonged 
to the Clan Campbell in Scotland, 
who now look to the Duke of 
Argyle as their chief. His im- 
mediate ancestors, however, came 
to America before the French and 
Indian War. and when the 
Revolutionar_\- War liroke out in 
1776. many of the clan had settled 
in Cherry \ alley, not far west of 
Albany. They took up arms on 
the side of the colonists and one, 
Col. Campbell. fell mortally 
wounded in the battle of Oriskanv. The Campbells have continued 
to reside in Cherry A alley and vicinitv. They have prospered and 
multiplied, luitil now it may be said, half of the people of Otsego 
County, in the State of Xew York, are relatives of the subject of 
this sketch. 

A few years after the war of 1812 had come to a close, Capt. 
Robert Campbell, having lost his wife and two dattghters, took his 
three sons and journeyed on horseback into what was then the 
\\'estern wilderness. They settled in Ctiba. and commenced to hew 
their fortunes out of the unbroken forest, "where the woods were 
full of catamounts, and Indians red as deer." The location 
was at the head waters of the Genesee and Allegheny 
rivers, the lieginning of the Allegheny mountains. The hills there 
are lofty and the valleys narrow, the soil is thin and mostly hard- 
pan, and the fields so covered with stones that a bo\- can walk on 
them all day without once touching foot to the ground. It used to 
be said the farmers had to file the noses of their sheep to make 



Detartment of Literature, Science, and Arts. 55 

them sharp enough to get the grass between the stones. Under 
such unfavorable conditions this old Yankee Scotchman and his 
three sons went to work with true Scotch grit, to make themselves 
homes in the wilderness. The oldest son sought more congenial 
surroundings in Michigan ; the youngest succumbed to the struggle 
and died. The other son, James ]\Iore Campl)ell, fought it out, 
living to a serene old age, and died in Cuba, respected by all. He 
married Melinda Morey. Of their family, Oscar James was the 
eighth of nine children. Oscar says he remembers going to school 
at the little red school house over the hill, when he was two years 
old, and cannot remember when he could not read. 

By this time the forest has given place to the farm, and the 
boy's early years were spent "growing up on a farm." Being a 
younger one among so many, he received plenty of needful dis- 
cipline. At twelve he had outgrown the "Deestrict Skule," and 
was sent for two winters to Alfred Academy, which is now known 
by the more pretentious name of Alfred University. An older 
sister had married the superintendent of the public schools at 
Ravenna, Ohio, so at fourteen he went to live with this sister. For 
three years he attended the Ravenna High School, and there pre- 
pared for college. In the summer of 1863, he went onto a farm 
near Ravenna, to gain new strength and renew his vigor. The 
old farmer had forgotten he was ever young. He thought boys 
weve made only for work. This boy was called at 5 a.m., worked 
two hours before breakfast, digging weeds in the garden, then he 
spent the rest of the day in the hay iield ; supper at 6 p.m., then 
to make him sleep well, he was given a scythe and sent to mow out 
the fence corners till 8 p.m. After a week or ten da}s of farming, 
Oscar became sufficiently strong and vigorous to tell the old man 
he would resign and try city life. The old man did not hesitate to 
say he thought Oscar was going straight to destruction. Oscar 
thought nothing could be more destructive than the life he was 
leading, and shook forever the dust of farming off his feet. Eight 
weeks he spent in a candy store in Cleveland, manufacturing, eat- 
ing and selling candy. 



56 Class of '70, Uxinersitv of jNIichigax. 

The war was on in all its fury and September. 1863. found him 
established as a paymaster's clerk in the City of Washington. 
Here for two years he saw much of the panoply of war. Every- 
thing about Washington became as familiar to him as the farms of 
his native hills. Many times he attended President Lincoln's 
levees, and took him by the hand. Often he visited the capitol and 
attended the sessions of congress. After the battle of the \Mlder- 
ness, man}- of the wounded were brought to Washington. All 
one night he assisted the Christian Commission at the landing, 
handing out a sandwich and a cup of hot coffee to the wounded 
soldiers as they came from the transports. In the summer of 1864. 
when Gen. Earl}" invested Washington, a whole brigade of clerks 
in the War Department was organized, and he became the drum- 
mer of Company G. War Department Rifles. Early was beaten 
oil without this regiment firing a gun. but the drill was kept up all 
that year. In October. 1864, when Grant's army was facing Lee's 
at Petersburg, he went with the paymaster to pay. The trip was 
delightful, past [Mount \ ernon. Portress Monroe, and up the James 
river to City Point, where he saw General Grant. The trip was 
not without one incident which he has always remembered. One 
regiment to l)e paid was in the extreme front. Across an open field 
a short distance were rebel batteries. A bomb-proof is a log house 
of one room six or eight feet high, half below the level of the 
ground, logs over the top, the sides and top covered with dirt and 
sods, and the side open away from the enemy. In the bottom of 
a bomb-proof the paymaster had a table covered with greenbacks 
and pay rolls, and he and the clerk were busy handing out the 
monev. The soldiers were brought up in squads, which made a 
group plainly visible from the rebel lines. After an hour or so 
the rebel batteries opened fire on that bomb-proof, which made a 
scattering. Their guns were well trained, one shot hit a corner 
knocking it out. down came dirt and splinters, and there was a 
general mix-up of greenbacks, pay rolls, dirt, stone, officers and 
tables in the bottom of that bomb-proof. Some outside were 
wounded. A battery to the left and rear opened and drew the fire 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 57 

of the rebel guns away from this spot. This opportunity was 
siezed to gather up the greenbacks, and to the music of shot and 
shell the paymaster and his clerk retired to a less conspicuous 
position. In August, 1865, just at the close of the war. the Major 
was ordered to go to Norfolk and get a million dollars in govern- 
ment bonds. Oscar went with him. The bonds were all counted, 
packed in a trunk, receipts given, and the treasure placed in a 
state room on the boat. A little after dark the boat stopped at 
Fortress Monroe, where a gang of rough characters came on board. 
The Major did not like the aspect of affairs, for the movements 
of paymasters were watched, and guerrillas and rebel sympathizers 
had captured several with their money in the vicinity of Washing- 
ton. As soon as the boat left the dock to steam up the Chesapeake 
to Baltimore, the Major paymaster tried to get a guard, but to his 
horror, he found the boat was full of roughs, and only a corporal's 
guard of a half dozen on board, all of whom were required to keep 
order below. To make it still more interesting, it was learned the 
cargo consisted largely of whiskey in barrels. The Major finally 
secured one soldier for a guard. It was agreed the ]\Iajor should 
stand guard outside with the soldier and the clerk inside the state- 
room with the money, till midnight, and then change off, the clerk 
taking the outside and the Major the inside. About 1 1 :co p.m., 
the gang below, having filled up pretty well on whiskey, attacked 
the guard. In the riot the guard Ijelow was getting worsted. 
When one came rushing up the stairs covered with blood, the 
Major pushed his lone guard into the state room with the clerk 
and the money, so no one could tell which door was guarded, and 
drew his revolver, prepared to shoot down all comers. Inside the 
clerk sat on the trunk with drawn revolver, and the soldier stood 
with fixed bayonet at the door. In the midst of the melee, one 
of the gang falling out of the forward gangway, went under the 
wheel and was never seen more. This cjuieted the rioters some- 
what, the guard gained control again, and the treasure was saved. 
The clerk sat on that trunk all the way from Baltimore to Wash- 
ington with his hand on his revolver. The dome of the capitol 



Class of 70, University of Michigan. 



never looked so grand as when approaching- the citv, and Oscar 
never felt so light-hearted as he did that day. Avhen those bonds 
were safe in the treasury. He heard Lincoln deliver his second 
inaugural address. He roomed only a block or two from Ford's 
theater, and passed there a half hour before the assassination. The 
President's body guard, composed of a troop of cavalry, were then 
in the street in front. He marched in the procession at the funeral. 
The grand review of the armies at ^^'ashington. at the close of the 
war. he saw. All one day Grant's army of the Potomac marched, 
and all the next day Sherman's western army passed in review. 

AMien September's golden month came, Oscar entered the Uni- 
versity of ^Michigan, scientific, in the class of 1869. The summer 
following his Freshman year, he spent as assistant engineer on the 
U. S. Lake Sur\-ey. Three months he spent on the south shore of 
Lake Superior, from ]vlarquette to the Huron Islands, with a boat's 
crew, taking the soundings which were afterwards embodied in 
the government chart for navigation. Two months he was \\ith a 
party of engineers on Kewenaw Point, measuring a base line for 
the triangulation of the lake. He changed to the classical course 
in the Sophomore year, which brought him into the class of '70. 
In college he was not a member of "the lower house facultv," but 
"always went to chapel regular," and belonged to the '70 glee club. 
It is said the memory of that glee club still lingers in Michigan. 
He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and of the 
literary Adelphi society. During the Senior year, Prof. Frieze was 
acting president, and he had a choir organized for chapel. It fell 
to Oscar to select the hymns. At the end of the examinations in 
the mid year, there were always some in the lower classes who fell 
by the wayside. There are those who still remember with what 
feeling the choir sang on that occasion, "Why do we mourn de- 
parted friends?" To let him down easy for spending five years in 
college, instead of four, the faculty gave him two degrees, A.B. 
and Ph.B. He was one of the speakers at Commencement exer- 
cises. After '7o"s last supper at Hangsterfer's, at which W'eisbrod 
spoke briefly and to the point, and the boys had scattered to the 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 59 

ends of the earth, Campbell remained l)ehind. That year he tano-ht 
mathematics in the Ann Arbor High School, with a little natural 
philosophy and chemistry mixed in, and an occasional song for 
spice. 

In June, 187 1, he entered the law office of Hutchins & Inger- 
soll, one of the prominent law firms of Cleveland. He continued 
his law studies there until September 10, 1872, wdien he was ad- 
mitted to the bar of Ohio. That fall he entered the law department 
of University of Michigan, wdiere he took his LL.B. the spring 
of 1873. In February. 1873, unsolicited by him, he was appointed 
deputy clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Cleveland. In July 
of the same year he was also made deputy clerk of the Superior 
Court of Cleveland, just organized, and placed in charge of that 
court. May i, 1874, he entered into partnership with Hon. John 
Hutchins, and John C. Hutchins, under the firm name of Hutchins 
& Campbell, and took up the active practice of his profession. The 
elder Hutchins had lieen a prominent man of afli'airs for a genera- 
tion, an anti-slavery agitator with Giddings, Wade, Sherman and 
Chase, and twice had been a representative in congress. The 
younger Hutchins has since been a judge in two different courts, 
and held other public positions with honor. This firm had an ex- 
tensive business and its reputation was among the best. In July, 
1875, being w^earied with work, and weak in eyes, he took a trip 
for his health with a party of a half dozen friends. They visited 
Niagara, across Lake Ontario to Toronto, down the rapids of the 
St. Lawrence to Montreal, thence to Quebec, back to Montreal, 
and to Albany, via Lakes Champlain and George. A day trip was 
made on the Hudson to Xew York, thence back to Cleveland. The 
great event of his life occurred June 20, 1876, at the Euclid Avenue 
Presbyterian Church, when he married Fannie Fuller. She be- 
longed to an old and prominent family of Cleveland. Her life has 
been full of good works, much of her time having been given to 
others, and all her life she has been devoted to free kindergartens 
and day nurseries for poor children. 

In the course of time his firm became the owners of a coal mine, 



60 Class of 70, University of Michigan. 



and it fell to him to manage that hranch of the bnsiness. Begin- 
ning in 1880, for seven years he ran a coal mine, that is. sometimes 
he ran the mine, and sometimes the mine ran him. The first time 
he went to pay. he stood at the mouth of the mine with the monev 
in a satchel. It was after dark, and a dim light showed the out- 
lines of the men as they came from the depth below, each with a 
small lamp on the vizor of his cap. With their blackened faces 
and flickering lights, they looked like the imps of darkness. Everv 
man said his pay was wrong. As the crowd increased, the excite- 
ment grew, every tongue but American was heard on everv side, 
emphasized with gestures whose import could not be mistaken. A 
riot was only averted by his shouting all mistakes would be cor- 
rected, and the money paid in the morning, and his beating a hasty 
retreat through the darkness to the hotel. A new pay roll was 
made up that night, and the next morning ever}- man given every- 
thing he asked. He took the first train for Cleveland a sadder but 
wiser man. Once when in the mine, a half mile from the entrance, 
an explosion set fire to the gas, and but for the presence of mind 
and c[uick action of the superintendent, who was present, his career 
would have closed then and there. In 1882, with two or three 
others, he exploited an invention for making turnbuckles, by a 
new process. It proved a great success. The cost of production 
was so much reduced, turnbuckles came into such general use in 
car Iniilding that it is now an exception to see a car on any rail- 
way without them. 

With him music has always had charms to soothe his savage 
breast. He belonged to a singing family, and from boyhood, 
whenever he opened his mouth, he had to sing. \\'hen '70 were 
Freshmen, the cantata of Esther was given in Ann Arbor, under 
the direction of Prof. Pease, of the Alichigan State Normal School. 
Campbell sang in those choruses, and also took the part of 
Harbonah. Soon after Prof. Pease brought out his operatta of 
Enoch Arden ; Campbell was invited to sing in that, and was given 
the part of the Sea Captain. The next two years he sang many 
times in Enoch Arden, in Ypsilanti and other cities of Michigan. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 61 

In his Senior year his singing was confined mostly to the Uni- 
versity Glee Cliih, which was composed of "70 hovs. In the sum- 
mer of 1871 on going to Cleveland, he hecame a member of the 
Harmonic Society. This organization gave the opera of Martha 
that fall with great success. In the winter the opera of Somnam- 
bula was l)rought out. Oscar sang in both these operas, acting 
in the last as the leader of the chorus. The Harmonic Society 
having gone the way of all the earth, in the spring of 1873 he be- 
came a charter member of the Cleveland \'ocal Society. This 
society had an active membership of about forty, selected on ex- 
amination with the aim to admit only the best singers. The presi- 
dent was a prominent citizen, chosen for dignity ; the vice-presi- 
dent was the executive officer chosen from the active members. 
The society gave three concerts each year to its honorary members 
only, and occasionally appeared at a public function, such as the 
dedication of the Garfield monument. The societv grew to a 
hundred members, and at the time of the May festivals, had an 
orchestra of sixty pieces and an augmented chorus of another 
hundred. Campbell was a member of the board of directors, and 
at the time of the musical festivals, the vice-president. May 
musical festivals were given in 1880, 1882 and 1884. Three even- 
ing and two afternoon concerts were given. The best soloists were 
obtained, like Myron W. Whitney and Ann Louise Gary. The 
oratorio of the Messiah was given at one, and Elijah at another. 
At one, the composer, Max Brttch, came from Berlin and con- 
ducted the giving of his own work. All of these festivals proved 
successful in the character of the work done, in the vast audiences 
in attendance, and in the financial reward. Campbell took part in 
them all, and as an officer devoted mtich time and energy to their 
accoitiplishment. He then resigned, leaving the society in a pros- 
perous condition with overflowing treasury. He has appeared 
only once since when, with a half dozen others of the charter mem- 
bers, he sang at the concert given by the society on its twenty- 
fifth anniversary. 

He has a son, Oscar James Campbell, Jr., in Harvard, who 



62 



Class of 70, University of Michigan. 



completed the literary course in June, 1902. Another son, Charles 
Fuller Campbell, is a Freshman at Alichigan University, and his 
only daughter, Jean Campbell, graduated in June, 1902, from Aliss 
Mittleberger's school, Cleveland, receiving a certificate admitting 
her to college. 

In religion he is a Presbyterian, not blue ; in politics, a repub- 
lican, not rabid. He lives in the top of a six story apartment, a 
"little lower than the angels." If any one doubts it, let him ask 
Noble, he has been there. 

His wife, at this point in the story, exclaims, "A'anity of vani- 
ties, all is vanitv," and the machine runs down. 



Charles Simeon Carter, B.S., LL.B. 
Milwaukee, Wis. 

Born in a log cabin in the 
town of ]\Ietomen, near the pres- 
ent village of Fairwater, Fond du 
Lac County, Wisconsin, March 
31, 1846, his parents having then 
Init recently pre-empted a quarter 
section of government land and 
located there as farmers. Charles 
S. was the second white child 
l)orn in that township. Whether 
or not his advent stimulated the 
inhabitants of the territory (then 
about 150,000) to apply for ad- 
mission as a state, it is certain 
that, during the first week follow- 
ing his birth, they voted in favor of the proposition which resulted 
two years later in the Territory of Wisconsin assuming the dignity 
of statehood. His father, Jacob Carter, born June 2, 181 3, in 




Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 63 

Lnncnlnirg'h, W orcester Co., Mass., was descended from John 
Rogers, the mart^yr at Smithfield during Queen Mary's reign. The 
Bible owned by Rogers at the time of his death is carefuUy pre- 
served in a glass case by a branch of the Carter family in New 
York City. Jacob Carter moved to Erie Co., Penn., at i8 years of 
age, and to Wisconsin in 1844, ^i^d passed the remainder of his life 
upon the above mentioned farm, which he owned at the time of his 
•death, September 29, 1890. The mother of Charles S., Elizabeth 
(Wasson) Carter, was Ijorn February 13, 1818, at Londonderrv, 
N. H. ; was married to Jacob Carter July 17, 1833; became the 
mother of twelve children, five of whom are still living. She re- 
sides with a daughter, Mrs. Eliza B. Gregg, at Wauwatosa, near 
Milwaukee, and is in her 85th year. She remembers, and relates 
that she saw, when she was about seven years old, her great- 
grandfather. Col. William Gregg, dressed in his old regimental 
uniform worn by him in the Revolutionary \\3.v. He was at the 
battle of Bunker Hill, and connnanded the vanguard of the forces 
imder General Stark at the battle of Bennington. He died in 
1825. Her grandfather was a captain in the War of 1812. Her 
father was a colonel in the State ^Militia. During the Civil War, 
1861-5, four of her sons, Capt. George W., 4th Wis.; James W., 
3d Wis. Battery ; Lieut. Harrison D., 32d Wis., and Charles S., 
4th Wis., and her brother, James Wasson, 4th \\'is., bore their 
several parts in the great conflict. 

Charles S. Carter lived at home on the farm until he was 15 
years of age, helping in the farm work of clearing, fencing and 
breaking up the virgin soil. This recjuired hard work with the 
means then at hand on the frontier. The first breaking and turn- 
ing of the soil was accomplished with from four to eight yokes of 
oxen hitched to a heavy "breaking plow" — oxen then being the 
main reliance of farmers in the new western country. During the 
winter seasons he attended the district school, and in his fifteenth 
year, in 1861, he attended Ripon College for two terms. The 
breaking out of the war stirred the blood of both old and young, 
and in the winter of '61-2, he joined the 4th Wis. Vol. fnf. at 



64 Class of '70, Uxiversitv of ^Michigan. 

Baltimore, ^h\., in which regiment his brother, George \\\, was 
captain of Company B, with intent to be enrolled, but being, in the 
opinion of his brother, too young to undertake the arduous duties 
of a soldier he was induced to accept employment as a civilian as 
captain's clerk and later as assistant to the sutler of the regiment, 
in which employments he encountered all the hardships incident to 
a soldier's life during his service with the regiment. Exposed 
life in a tent and, later, in barracks, in midwinter, and the 
scenes in and around the historic city of Baltimore presented 
to his youthful mind a striking contrast to the backwoods life to 
which theretofore he had been accustomed : and this, together with 
the excitements and uncertainties of war. the daily accounts of 
battles fought — of victories and of defeats — were to him as the 
dawn of a new era — the opening up of a new world of existence. 
While at Baltimore he visited Fort !McHenry overlooking the har- 
bor. Here some of the unexploded shells thrown into the fortress 
from the British war vessels during the bombardment in 18 14 
were pointed out to him. and also the flagstaff from which dur- 
ing the same conflict floated the stars and stripes, a glimpse of 
which inspired Francis S. Key, while a prisoner on a British vessel 
in the distance, to write "The Star Spangled Banner." 

In February, '62, the regiment was ordered to Old Point Com- 
fort, where it landed and camped under the walls of Fortress 
Monroe, within which a little more than three years later, all that 
was left of the Confederacy. Jeft'erson Davis, commenced a term 
of two years' imprisonment. After encamping for two weeks at 
Newport Xews the regiment was ordered to join General Butler's 
expedition to the Gulf of Mexico, sailing from Hampton Roads 
only one day prior to the arrival at that place of the Confederate 
iron-clad Merrimac in its destructive career, which, all the world 
knows, was suddenly and effectually checked by the famous little 
^Monitor in the memorable conflict between those two vessels on 
jMarch 9, 1862. As the mammoth transport, "Constitution," carry- 
ing the 4th Wis., 6th Mich., 21st Ind., and Xims' Alass. Battery — 
3,600 men in all, with their baggage, equipment and horses — 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 65 

steamed down past Sewell's Point, the Confederate batteries there 
opened fire with a view of sinking the ship and its Hving cargo. 
Some of the threatening missiles passed over the lioat, phmging 
into the water beyond, while others fell short, doing no damage. 
The transport continued on down past the "Rip Raps" and out to 
sea, arriving at Ship Island, off the Mississippi coast, in the Gulf 
of Mexico, March 13, 1862. Continued exposure to winds and 
storms of the ocean voyage, and the lack of fresh water and whole- 
some food brought on a severe attack of typhoid fever which 
threatened to prove fatal to Charles S., but his rugged constitution 
acquired on the farm brought him through a most dangerous sick- 
ness, lasting about six weeks. He then gradually regained health, 
although not in time to accompany the regiment on its voyage 
with the victorious army up the Mississippi River to New Orleans. 
Having been left behind on Ship Island with others on the sick 
list, after a partial recovery, he started with them, by boat, ]\Iay 
21, 1862, for New Orleans In- way of Lake Pontchartrain to re- 
join the regiment. While passing into the lake from the Gulf, 
Mr. Carter says, there was suddenly presented to his view what 
seemed to him in his then enfeebled condition one of the most beau- 
tiful and enchanting scenes he had ever beheld. Flowers in great 
profusion, with every color and tint of the rainbow, clustered here 
and there upon a carpet of green, which was shaded by trees thick 
with foliage, in which carolled birds of strange but gorgeous 
plumage. He attributes his rapid recovery of health and strength 
to the stimulus furnished In' the ecstacies into which he was sud- 
denly thrown l)y this striking contrast between the barren sands 
of Ship Island and this paradise of flowers. After a day's rest at 
Algiers, on the Alississippi River opposite New Orleans, the little 
band of 30 convalescents started up the river on a small transport 
to join the regiment, which had gone upon an expedition to open 
the Alississippi River as far north as Mcksburg. For two days 
and nights, without gunboat escort, and with but one cannon and 
30 rifles for self-protection, they pushed on up the river alone, 
through the enemy's country. Although repeatedly fired upon 



66 Class of '70. Uxixersitv of ^Michigan. 

from the river bank, they escaped serious casuakies. but came 
near being taken prisoners at Baton Rouge where they stopped at 
the wharf, expecting to hnd Union troops, but the troops had g^one 
farther up the river, leaving no garrison at this point. Soon after 
tving up at the dock a company of 300 mounted Confederates rode 
up. but the hawsers were quickly cut. allowing the transport to 
float down the river and out of their reach. The journey was con- 
tinued up the ^Mississippi until a little above the mouth of Red 
River, where the Union troops and gunboat fleet were met return- 
ing to Baton Rouge. ]\Ir. Carter went with a second expedition 
to \'icksburg and there witnessed the bombardment of that place 
for about three weeks by Commodore Porter's mortar fleet, and 
also witnessed Admiral Farrag'ut's fleet of gunboats run by the 
City of Mcksburg in July. 1862. amid a heavy storm of shot and 
shell from the shore batteries. He also witnessed the commence- 
ment of the work on the canal or "cut oft'" across the point of 
land opposite A'icksburg into which the channel of the ^lississippi 
was eventually turned, leaving Mcksburg almost an inland city, 
having an approach by water only from below. The troops re- 
turned to Baton Rouge the latter part of July in time to repel, with 
great loss, an attack upon the city by the forces under General 
Breckenridge. on August 5th. 1862. The commander of the Union 
forces. General Williams, was killed in this battle. Following 
this engagement the troops were ordered to the vicinity of Xew 
Orleans to protect that city from an attack by land forces, and 
encamped below CarroUton upon the grounds used in later vears 
for the Xew Orleans Exposition. !Mr. Carter attended this ex- 
position and noted the wonderful changes on these grounds 
brought about in the space of twenty years, which strikingly illus- 
trated the contrast between scenes of war and those of peace. In 
a few months the activity of the enemy required the presence of 
the troops in other localities and they returned to Baton Rouge: 
but in February. 1863. the command was ordered to Indian 
village on Bayou Plaquemine along which Longfellow's sad but 
faithful Evangeline passed in her lonely canoe in search for her 



Department of Literature. Science, and Arts. 67 



banished lover. In after years while on a summer tour in Xova 
Scotia Mr. Carter was shown the scenes of her girlhood, whence 
she had departed on her venturesome but successful journey. The 
object of the movement down the river being accomplished the 
troops returned to Baton Rouge. For months at a time Charles S. 
had sole charge of the sutler's store in camp and made frequent 
trips to New Orleans to purchase supplies, having full authority 
to buy wdiatever he might think advisable for the store. 

Mr. Carter being in ill health left for his home in Wisconsin, 
via Xew Orleans and Xew York, in the month of March, 1863, at 
the age of 17. He traveled entirely alone without an acquaintance, 
except such as he made on the way. He left Baton Rouge March 
29th, and New Orleans jNIarch 31st; passed Mobile Bay April 
1st; stopped at Pensacola Bay April 2d; visited Fort Pickens on 
Santa Rosa Island ; stopped several hours at Key West on April 
5th and visited Fort Taylor at that place ; arrived at Port Royal 
April 9th ; passed through the blockading fleet ofi" Charleston the 
same day and arrived in New York April 12th; visited relatives in 
Pennsylvania ; stopped one day at Niagara Falls, arriving home 
April 25th. a little less than a month from the time he started on 
the trip. He remained at home recuperating until September, 
1863, when he went to Chicago and entered Bryant & Stratton's 
Commercial College, completing a full course, including tele- 
graphy, in March. 1864. He then started for Chattanooga, Tenn., 
where his brother, James, in the 3d Wis. Battery, was stationed, 
but at that time he was not permitted by the military authorities 
to go south of Nashville, Tenn. Here he obtained employment 
in the ot^ce of Auditor of the U. S. Military Railroads, in which 
capacitv he served for a year and a half. Here he had the un- 
expected pleasure of meeting his brother, Harrison, of the 32d 
Wis. Regt., whom he had not seen for nearly three years, and who 
was on his way south with dispatches for General Sherman. Dur- 
ing his stay at Nashville Charles S. made a trip to Chattanooga 
and Lookout Mountain, and a 4th July trip with a party to Alam- 
moth Cave. He was at Nashville at the time of the battle there 



68 Class of '70, University of jMichigan. 

between General Hoocrs forces and the Union forces under 
General Thomas. In the fall of 1865, he resigned his position at 
Nashville and accepted a position offered him as assistant to the 
Judge Advocate at military headquarters of the District of Illinois 
at Springfield, where he remained until the spring of 1866. The 
war being over and having made up his mind to go through 
college, if possible, he returned home in that year and pursued a 
preparatory course of a few months at Ripon College, entering the 
University of Michigan in the same fall with the class of "70. 
Alwut a week before he started for Ann Arbor, in 1866, his 
brother, Alvin, only two years his junior, was buried and within 
two weeks after Charles S. entered the university his brother, 
Harrison, two years his senior, was taken away bv the same dread 
disease — typhoid fever. The loss of these two beloved brothers 
weighed heavily upon him during the greater part of his college 
life, but the kind and considerate treatment he received from his 
classmates did nmch to lighten his sorrow. They elected him 
treasurer of the class the first year and president the second year. 
He was a member of the Literary Adelphi, of which he became 
liljrarian and afterwards secretary. He was secretary of the 
students' lecture association. He entered into the spirit of college 
life and formed close friendships with his classmates, which he 
believes still exist as to those who are living, and terminated only 
with the deaths of those who have passed on. 

In his Junior year Mr. Carter, at the annual convention at 
Detroit, was elected secretary of the "Associated Western Literary 
Societies." His duties as such secretary was to correspond with 
and engage prominent lecturers for the various lecture associations 
in the principal cities of the West belonging to the union. This 
work he performed w'hile pursuing his regular studies in his class 
and thereliy earned a portion of his college expenses. He was 
elected by the class as one of the editors of the Oracle in the 
Sophomore year, and as one of the editors of the Uiik'crsity 
Chronicle in the Junior year. \\'as appointed as one of the 
speakers at the "'Sophomore Ex." and also at the "Junior Ex." 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 69 

He passed his summer vacations at manual labor in the harvest 
field. Immediately after graduation Mr. Carter was invited by 
the managers of the "American Literary Bureau," of New York, 
an agency for lecturers, readers, concert and opera companies, to 
take charge of its branch office at Chicago. Here he remained 
about one year and was then called to New York City as secretary 
and treasurer and manager of the Bureau. For nine years he re- 
mained with the American Literary Bureau and during that time 
was brought into business relations with many prominent men and 
women of the platform whose personal acquaintance he enjoyed. 
Among these may be mentioned Wendell Phillips, Bayard Taylor, 
George William Curtis, E. L. Youmans, Carl Schurz. Henry 
Ward B>eecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Donald G. Mitchell, Paul 
B. Du Chaillu, John G. Saxe, Grace Greenwood, Julia Ward 
Howe, Theodore Tilton, John B. Gough, Gen. Judson Kilpatrick, 
Washington Gladden, Edward Eggleston, Elizabeth Cady Stan- 
ton, Susan B. Anthony, John G. Holland, Schuyler Colfax, Charles 
Sumner, Frederick Douglass, T. De Witt Talmage, Kate Field, 
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Richard S. Storrs, W. W. 
Storey, James Anthony Froude, Wilkie Collins, Edmund Yates, 
Charles Bradlaugh, Richard A. Proctor, Emily Faithfull, Martin 
Farquhar Tupper, Gerald Massey, Justin McCarthy, John Hay, 
''Mark Twain," "Petroleum V. Nasby," "Josh Billings," Bret 
Harte, Anna E. Dickinson, James T. Fields, John W. Forney, 
Mary A. Livermore, George Vandenhoff, James E. Murdoch, and 
many others. He traveled with Richard A. Proctor, arranging 
for his lectures on astronomical subjects in all the principal cities 
of the L'nited States, accompanying him as far as San Francisco, 
on his way to Australia. The Bureau employed Henry Ward 
Beecher to give 17 lectures in the West on 17 consecutive nights 
(excepting Sundays) and guaranteed and paid him $17,000 for 
the trip, clearing $5,000 in the three weeks. The Bureau engaged 
Theodore Tilton for a series of 200 lectures in one season and paid 
him $20,000 for them, making a profit of $io,ooo' on the venture. 
]\Iany other enterprises of a similar nature were carried through, 
some with profit, others with losses. 



ro ■ Class of '70, University of ]\Ik iucax. 



}klr. Carter road law in the office of l-lllitnt I\ Shcphenl. a son- 
in-law of Win. 11. Xandorliilt. ami entered Lohnnhia Law School. 
Xew \'ork I'ity. in the tall of 1877. and was graduated therefrom 
in May, 1S71): was then admitted to practice in all the courts of 
the State of Xew York and opened an office in Xew \'ork City; 
carried on his professional work there until May. 1885, when he 
removeil to Milwaukee. Wis. He was admitted to practice at the 
^\'isconsin har and liefore the I'^ederal Conns and has hecn con- 
tinuall}' enj;ai;ed in law practice in Milwaukee ever since 1885. 
On February 17. 1890. he was appointed assistant Cnited States 
district attorne\- for the Eastern District oi Wisconsin and con- 
tinued in that position until June 2. 1804. 

He is a member of the Presbyterian Church: a member of 
Kilboiu-n Lodge. Xo. 3. F. & A. ]M.. Milwaukee, of which he is a 
Past Master: is a member of Kilbourn Chapter. Xo. 1. R. A. M., 
^Milwaukee, of which he is a Past High Priest : is a memlier of 
Ivanhoe Conuuandery, Xo. J4. Milwaukee, in which he has served 
as Prelate: is a member of Wisconsin L'onsistory, and is a mem- 
ber of Tripoli Temple. A. A. O. X. M. S.. Milwaukee: is a mem- 
ber of Milwaukee County P>ar Association ami of the Wisconsin 
State Bar Association : also a member of WisctMisin Commamlery 
of the ^lilitary Carder of the Loyal Legion of the I'nited States by 
inheritance from his brother. Lieutenant Llarrisou D. Carter. In 
politics he is a Republican. 

He married ]Miss ^lary Ella X'oorheis. o\ (irand Rapids. Mich., 
formerly of Ann Arbor. March 31, 1873. Their children are 
Lillian M. and L'harles K., both of whom passed through the high 
school and were graduated from the State Normal School at Mil- 
waukee. Lillian 'SI. is employed as assistant cataloguer in the 
Milwaukee Public Library. Charles F. entercil the L'niversity of 
Wisconsin with advanced stauding in the fall of 1900, taking up 
the electrical engineering course. After one year's study he ac- 
cepted a position in the city engineer's office at Seattle. Washing- 
ton, where he remained until July. 1902. w hen he accompanied an 
engineering party to Alaska in the service of the Alaska Central 
Ry. He will return in Xovember. U)02, and then complete his 
course at the Cniversit\- of Wisconsin. 



DEPART.MTiNT OF LITERATURE. SCIENCE. AND ArTS. 71 

Thomas Chalmers Christy, A.M., M.D. 

Pittsburg, Pa. 

Was lioni at Kinsman. Trumbull Co.. ( )hio, October i8, 1846. 
His fatber, Jdbn Cbristy, was Ijorn at Kinsman, O., Jan. 2, 1806, 
and was ])y occupation a farmer ; was very successful in raising 
fine wooled sbeep. John Christy's parents came from Westmore- 
land Co., Pa., cleared a farm and spent their days in Kinsman. 
Mrs. John Cbrist\"s maiden name was Hannah B. Andrews, born 
at Kinsman. ( ).. Sept. 15. 1807. Her father came from Connecti- 
cut, and her mother's father with two daughters from the same 
state early in 1800. John Christy died May 27, 1873, and his wife, 
Hannah B., died April 5th, 1869, during her son's Junior year in 
college. T. Chalmers Christy attended the public schools at Kins- 
man in his boyhood days; entered Kinsman Academy in 1855. He 
served in the Union Army during the Civil W'ar. having been 
mustered into service of the United States as a private in the 
171st Ohio Vol. Inf. National Guards, ]\Iay, 1864. Was stationed 
at Johnson's Island, Lake Erie, near Sandusky, O., to guard 
officers of the Confederate Army confined in prison. In June, 
1864, his regiment was ordered to Lexington, Ky. They were 
in the battle at Kellar's Bridge, Licking River, near Cynthiana, 
Ky., June 11, 1864, and the entire command of Union forces was 
surrounded and taken prisoners by John Alorgan's troops. Mr. 
Christy was wounded during the fight. On the following day his 
regiment was re-captured by Union forces under command of 
General Burbridge. His regiment, after a forced march of ten 
miles, was given a "running parole" and subsequently returned 
to duty on Johnson's Island. Mr. Christy was sent to the hospital 
at Covington, Ky., until close of service in August, 1864, when he 
was honorably discharged. 

After being mustered out of the army he entered the prepara- 
tory department of Western Reserve College at Hudson, O., 
where he studied one year and afterwards he attended Ann Arbor 
High School for one year prior to entering the University of 



72 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

jMichigan in September. 1866. with the class of '70. ^Ir. Christy 
entered heartily into the spirit of college life and labors and made 
friends among all the classes then in college. He became a mem- 
ber of Psi Upsilon fraternity, also of the Literary Adelphi. a 
member of the Students' Christian Association, of which he was 
president for one year ; was elected president of the class of "70 in 
January, 1869: was elected one of the editors of the Oracle in his 
Sophomore year, and one of the editors of the lliivcrsify Chroiiicic 
in his Junior year ; was one of the speakers at the second Sopho- 
more "Ex.," and one of the speakers at the Junior "Ex.," and also 
one of the speakers at Commencement. 

After graduation he spent a couple of years at his home on the 
farm, then returned to the university for one year's study of 
medicine and surgery in the medical department. In the fall of 
1873 he went to Bellevue Hospital ^Medical College, New York 
City, and continued the same study, receiving the degree of M.D. 
from that institution in March, 1874. He commenced the practice 
of his profession in Pittsburg, Pa., in October, 1874. In May, 
1882. with his wife, he went abroad and continued the stttdy of 
certain branches of the profession at Edinburg, \'ienna, IJerlin, 
Paris and London and returned in 1883 and resuiued professional 
work imtil November, 1891. when from a severe attack of grippe 
he was invalided until October, 1894. He then resumed practice, 
but in January, 1901, was oljliged to abandon all work by reason 
of ill health. He has recently been advised by his professional 
friends to go to southern California in search of a more congenial 
climate. 

October 18. 1876. "Sir. Christy married Rebecca Perkins Kins- 
man, a graduate (1869) of Lake Erie Seminary, Painesville, O. 
Children: Hugh Duncan, born July 16, 1877. died Oct. 10, 1877; 
John Kinsman, born Nov. 9, 1878, died >March 3, 1879; Helen 
\Mlliams, bom ]\Iay 15. 1880, died May 13. 1900. Their children 
are buried in a cemetery at Kinsman, C\ Although Dr. Christy 
has met with many misfortunes he seems to take life philosophical- 
ly and to bear up bravely against adverse circumstances. His 
letters are always full of good cheer, never forgetting" his old-time 
attachments to the members of his class. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 73 



Eugene Francis Cooley, A.B. 

Lansing:, Mich. 

Eugene Francis Cooley was 
born at Adrian, Mich, Nov. 15, 
1849. His father, Thomas M. 
Cooley, was born at Attica, N. Y., 
Jan. 6, 1824, became an eminent 
jurist and author; was Jay Pro- 
fessor of Law and Lecturer on 
Constitutional Law and Medical 
Jurisprudence in the University 
of Michigan ; Chief Justice of the 
Supreme Court of Michigan and 
Chairman of the Inter-State Com- 
merce Commission. His mother's 
maiden name was Mary E. Hor- 
ton, born at Amsterdam, N. Y., 
June t6, 1830. Thomas M. Cooley and ^liss Horton were married 
at Adrian, Mich., December 30th, 1846. Eugene's early education 
was accjuired at Adrian and at Ann Arbor High School. He 
entered the University of Michigan in the fall of 1866 and was 
graduated with the class of '70. He joined the Sigma Phi frater- 
nity in college. He was assistant on the \J. S. Lake Survey dur- 
ing the summer of 1870, stationed at Isle Royale and Porcupine 
Mountains on Lake Superior. In the fall of that year he went to 
Port Huron, Mich., and assisted in building and starting the Gas 
Works at that place. Was appointed superintendent and had 
charge of the works until June, 1872, when he removed to Lans- 
ing, Mich., and in company with James Clements, of Ann Arbor, 
organized the Lansing Gas Light Co. Had charge of building 
the works and was appointed superintendent upon their com- 
pletion, hulding the position for about 20 years. In connection 
with the Gas Co.'s business he org-anized an electric lieht com- 




74 Class of '70, Uxr'ersity of jNIichigan. 

pan}-, luiikling' up a large and complete plant, which was after 
some years of successful operation sold to the City of Lansing. 

In 1 88 1 Mr. Cooley assisted in the organization of the Lansing- 
Wagon Works, now a large and prosperous manufacturing in- 
stitution, doing business throughout the Lnited States. He was 
for many years the active manager and is still treasurer and 
director. 

Li 1886 was one of the incorporators of the City National 
Bank of Lansing, a very strong and successful institution, and has 
been its vice-president from its inception. In 1892 was one of the 
organizers of the ]\Iaud S. ^^'indmill (!!c Pump Co., and is still its 
president. Assisted in organizing the Lansing Sugar Co. in the 
fall of 1900, and is one of the directors. 

His principal business is carried on under name of the ]\Iichi- 
gan Supply Co., of which he is the proprietor. This concern oc- 
cupies a fine block at the corner of Grand and Ottawa Sts., Lans- 
ing, and does a large wholesale business in iron pipe and fittings, 
plumbers' supplies, etc. 

Eugene F. Cooley was married in 187 1 to Kate A. Taylor, of 
Ann Arbor, Mich. Nine children have been born to them, six 
girls and three boys. All are alive and well, except one, a girl, 
who died in infancy. Two of the girls and two of the boys at- 
tended the L^niversity of ^Michigan, and one of the latter was on 
the Michigan champion base ball team of 1898. Two of the 
daughters are married, one living in Lansing and one in Chicago. 
The elder is the mother of two fine children, a girl and a boy. 

Latterly Cooley has been taking life pretty easy. His health 
is fairly good, but is kept so by plenty of fresh air and exercise. 
For several years past he has spent the months of February and 
March in the South, boating and fishing on the Indian River in 
Florida. He generally takes one or more members of his family 
^\ith him and finds the trip exceedingly pleasant and beneficial. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 



75 



John Loveland CuIIey^ C.E. 
Died at Cleveland, O., February 5th, 1902. 

Hannilial, whilst a mere child, 
went with his elders into the 
temple and swore punishment to 
the enemies of Carthage. This 
trifling event is said to have deter- 
mined his eventful career. When 
Culley was 3 years old, a travel- 
ing phrenologist examined his 
head and prophesied that he 
would make a good civil engineer. 
This fact, joined with the idea 
that his father was a profound 
heliever in phrenology and a great 
admirer of the Chief Engineer of 
L. S. & ^I. S. R. R., undoubtedly 
had much to do with the determination of his professional career. 
He never forgot that early prophecy, or to do all he could for its 
fulfillment. From early youth he had faith in his ultimate suc- 
cess. 

He was born at Ashtabula, C)., Oct. 11, 1847, the third of seven 
children born to Ouintus Cincinnatus and Julia Ann Culley. The 
ancient Culley family tree was known in Scotland, under the name 
of McCullev ; the earliest member of which there is any record is 
one Mathew McCulley, who, at middle age, with his family emi- 
grated to Ireland. His son David, born in Scotland, died in Ire- 
land, 1756, leaving besides other children two sons — David and 
Alathew. This ^Nlathew, after the death of his father, David, re- 
turned to Scotland, where he reared seven children. He and his 
family afterwards went back to Ireland. It was during this last 
sojourn in Ireland (near Londonderry) that the title of Mc was 
taken from this branch of the family on account of their being 
dyers of cloth. His oldest son, David, came to America in 1770, 




76 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

and in 1772 brought his father and all his family to this country 
and settled at Cherry A'alley, N. Y. They were there during the 
memorable Indian [Massacre. Mathew died there in 1790, 82 years 
old. His four sons participated in the Revolutionary War. One 
branch of the family settled in A'irginia, whence came the Indiana 
settlement. His son, David, moved, 1799, to Black Rock, Canada, 
1801. to Clarence. N. Y.. and in 1815 to Alohican Township, 
Wayne Co., O., where he died in 18 17. 79 years old. His second 
child. Mathew David. John L.'s grandfather, was born in 1790 at 
Cherry \'alley, died in 1876. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. 
John L.'s father, O. C. born in 1820, now living in his 82d year, 
is hale and hearty. John L.'s mother. Julia Ann. who died in 1889, 
was a Loveland. wdiose historic family tree is well preserved. 

John L.'s preparation was at the public schools of Ashtabula. 
In his youth he early developed that energy and industry for which 
he was afterwards distinguished. His perseverance carried him 
through many a knotty problem, and he passed from school to 
school, always at the head of his class, often passing a whole grade 
at a time. He was a good scholar in grammar, arithmetic, algebra 
and geometry, and as to geography, he "spelled" down the whole 
school in answering. Probably there were but few students better 
prepared in geometry than he was when he entered the L-niversity 
of Michigan. His fondness for books to the neglect of proper 
physical exercise nearly cost him his life. It took 25 years after 
graduation to recover his natural rugged, vigorous health. In 
college he joined the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and the Literar}' 
x\delphi. 

His professional life consists of two parts: First. 1870 to '78, 
of miscellaneous engineering, salaried commissions, and second, 
'78 to the time of his death, of a regular, continuous, personal 
office practice. 

July 1. '70. to end of that season he was U. S. Inspector at 
Sandusky. C).. for the improvement of that harbor. The first few- 
months of '71 he was with Davock as rodman on the St. L. & S. 
E. R. R. Returning home (Ashtalntla) in July, '71, he was for 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 77 

next vear and a half engaged in the survey of the A.. Y. & P. R. R. 
He savs : "These were the days of Wild Cat R. R.'s and our hearts 
rejoiced when the Pennsylvania R. R. took charge and paid us for 
some four months in one payment." 

Returning home for a short rest he went to Cleveland, O., 
April I, 1873, when, after a ten days' persistent search for a job, 
he got one at a dollar and a half per day. with a Bohemian 
architect, who could not talk English, but could swear to the 
King's delight in several languages. Things never were so blue 
with ]Mr. C. as during the nine weeks he remained here. Finally 
June 15, that year, he received a flattering proposition from the 
City Engineer of Cleveland to serve the city as draughtsman, thus 
narrowly escaping the '73 disaster. Here he remained until Sep- 
tember, 1877, and unconsciously laid the foundation for his future 
work, for in these four years he mapped the city four times, and 
acquired a profound knowledge of the ground plan of the city. 
Besides the duty of preparing sewer plans, he made all bridge 
plans and similar drawings. In 1876. just before the iron work 
for the Superior Street viaduct was let, he prepared an estimate 
and stated that the cost would not exceed $125,000. The engineer- 
ing department had provided $250,000 and feared it would not be 
enough. It was let at $110,000, the average bid being same as 
j\Ir. C.'s estimate. It was while still in the employ of the city, 
June, ''jy, that he was called upon by the L. S. & J\I. S. R. R. Co. 
to design and superintend the construction of a double skew arch 
of 16 feet span each, of 41 degrees skew angle, under its roadbed 
in West Cleveland. On account of its rarity the construction of 
this arch added nuich to his local reputation. 

In '86 he wrote a treatise on Oblique Arclics, which first ap- 
peared serially in \'an Xostrand's Eclectic Magazine, and sub- 
sequently in book form, materially simplifying a problem which 
inexperienced authors had theretofore rendered complex. 

W hen he had completed his work for the city his services were 
secured by the Brown Hoist Co., whose operations on the Chicago 
Drainage Canal have attracted considerable attention. 



Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



May 16. '78, Culley formally entered upon his private engineer- 
ing practice at Cleveland, which he maintained unbroken during 
the remainder of his life. His practice covered a wide field and 
a great variety of subjects. He was called upon to do almost 
everything in the line of engineering. He was an expert surveyor, 
having written many pamphlets on this subject, some of which 
have been reprinted abroad. He had a large and varied experience 
in the survey of most valuable real estate. He had an extensive 
and a rapidly growing practice in landscape engineering. He was 
engaged for three years on one treatment of some 800 acres, per- 
fecting" it for a gentleman's country home at a cost of several hun- 
dred thousand dollars. He did considerable R. R., mining and U. 
S. engineering work. Spent the season of '81 at Republic, Mich., 
putting in masonry foundation under the Republic Iron Co.'s 
hydraulic plant, to replace a wooden foundation. At the same time 
he made a R. R. survey from Salineville to New Lisbon, O., both 
successful. In '82 made an extensive examination of the Hocking 
coal field in Ohio. He was, "86 to '92, inclusive, engineer of West 
Cleveland, where he had entire charge of all the various improve- 
ments pertaining to that corporation. Was engineer of Glenville 
'92, and constructed its water system. 

His field books, kept in duplicate, entered in ink, are most com- 
plete, and so completely indexed that any part of them can be 
found at once. 

Mr. Culley was married July 15, '84, to Miss Carrie H. 
Stephenson, of Greenville, Pa., eighth child of Adam M. and 
Licetta Miller Stephenson. Mrs. C. was born Nov. 3, 1853. She 
attended Lake Erie Seminary, Painesville. ()., the year "73-'74, and 
the year '74-'75 at Hollidaysburg (Pa. ) Seminary, where she was 
graduated June 15 in classics and nuisic. The year ''/'/-'/'&, she 
taught music and calisthenics at Hollidaysburg, and at Washing- 
ton. Pa. ; '78 to '83, inclusive, and the year '83 to '84 again at 
Plollidaysburg. Louise Stephenson Culley, born Sept. 6, 1894. is 
the fruit of this union. 

Air. and Mrs. C. had traveled extensivelv in the United States. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 79 

In the summer of 1901 they visited Yellowstone National Park 
and the Great West. Just prior to his death they visited Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Mr. C. was the author of the following pamphlets : Hillside 
Drainage, '86; Steel Tapes. "87, copied at once into Eng-ineering 
News, this country, and the Iron Monger, (England) ; Laiidseape 
Engineering, '87 to '88, read hefore Ohio Society of Surveyors and 
Civil Engineers, and before the Civil Engineers' Club of Cleve- 
land. It was also extensively circulated; and Transit Points, '91. 
In '90 he wrote an elaborate article for the Evening News on Fire 
Brick Pavement, Ijeing a pioneer advocate of this pavement that is 
now^ filling so useful a part the country over, in municipal improve- 
ments. 

As a Republican he took an active interest in politics, favoring 
the election of good men rather than mere partv success. Never 
held office nor belonged to any secret society. 

In speaking of his death the Cleveland Leader said : 

"John L. CuUey, one of the best-known landscape gardeners 
of the city, died at his home on Handy street Tuesday night at 
the age of fifty-four years. Mr. Culley had been a resident of the 
city for a number of years, coming here from Ashtabula, O. 
While a resident of Cleveland Mr. Culley designed some of Cleve- 
land's most beautiful landscapes. He was employed quite ex- 
tensively by Mr. Moore, of the Everett-Moore syndicate, and the 
Garfields. He had an office in the Blackstone building, and was a 
prominent member of the Civil Engineers" Club, of this city." 

Mr. Culley had some intimation a few weeks before his death 
that he was afflicted with Bright's disease, but he kept up his usual 
activity and determination to conquer his trouble until the last. 
His plan to visit Washington, D. C, to see the boys of '70 there 
was carried out with the hope of improving his condition by the 
trip. He and his wife started for Washington January 18, 1902, 
and returned January 30th, the week before his death. He went 
to his office Monday, remained at home Tuesday sitting by his 
grate fire, went to bed that evening and passed away quietly and 



80 



Class of '70, University of AIichigan. 



peacefully at 5:15 a.m. Wednesday, February 5th, 1902. His 
body was buried at Ashtabula, his former home. He leaves a 
widow, Mrs. Carrie H. Culley. and daughter, Louise, who reside 
at the homestead, 134 Handy Street, Cleveland. 

Mr. Culley attended the re-union of his class at Ann Arbor in 
June, 1900, and thereafter collected and published and distrilnUed, 
at his own expense, considerable information concerning the mem- 
bers of his class. 



Harlow Palmer Davock, C.E., M.S. 
Detroit, Mich. 

Was Ijorn in Ikiitalo, N. Y., 
:\larch nth, 1848. His father, 
John W. Davock, a dealer in 
hardware and lock supplies, was 
of Irish descent ; was born in 
Dublin, Ireland, Init came to this 
country from Alanchester, Eng- 
land, in 1832. His mother, Maria 
Davock, was of New England 
descent, but was born in New 
York State. Harlow P. mixed 
self support and education from 
the time he was fourteen years of 
age until he was graduated from 
the Buffalo High School in 1865, 
and then was admitted to the classical course in both 
Rochester and the present Colgate University, but on account 
of the special facilities offered in engineering work took the 
literary course of the University of Michigan, working vaca- 
tions and savins: monev to enable him to carrv on his 




Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 81 

studies. At the age of 14 he was office boy for the Buffalo & Erie 
Raih-oad, and afterwards traveHng agent for the same road. In 
college he joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, the Alpha 
Nu literary society, was for a time one of the editors of the 
Lniii'crsity Clironiclc, a speaker at the first Sophomore exhibition 
and was secretary of his class in the Senior year. Immediately 
after his graduation in 1870, he commenced to practice as a civil 
engineer ; was engaged as such upon different railroads in various 
parts of the United States ; assisted as U. S. civil engineer in the 
construction of the government locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michi- 
gan, and the Cascade Locks, Oregon. ^Meantime he had studied 
law; was admitted to the l)ar in 1878, and resigned from the 
government service in 1882. He has made the practice of law his 
chief occupation since that time, taking a hand, however, in 
politics in each campaign, and as a member of the Republican 
party has l^een active as a delegate in its conventions and in its 
councils. He was a meml^er of the Michigan Legislature in i893and 
1894. During that session the proposition of the Log Cabin, or 
Palmer Park, so-called, had been defeated, and after several weeks 
hard work, Air. Davock secured unanimous consent to have the 
same question called up in the House, and secured its passage. 
He was appointed a member of the Detroit Board of Health by 
Governor Rich, in March, 1895; reappointed March ist, 1896, and 
held the position for five years, being president of that body for 
two years. He was United States Chief Supervisor of Elections 
in the Eastern District of Michigan in 1893 ; was appointed United 
States Referee in Bankruptcy for the Eastern District of Michi- 
gan, Southern Division, August ist, 1898, and reappointed Aug. 
1st, 1900 and 1902. 

The Detroit Free Press, September 8, 1900, said of him : 
"Harlow P. Davock, referee in bankruptcy for the district 
which includes Detroit, has returned from an Eastern trip. While 
away he attended the second annual convention of the National 



82 Class of 70, University of Michigan. 

Association of Referees, held at Saratoga. X. Y.. on August 30 
and 31. 

"At one session of the convention Mr. Davock read a paper on 
'Orders, Rules and Forms,' which was well received and was re- 
warded with much praise from the members. Mr. Davock had a 
high honor paid him by the assocation, who chose him as one of 
the new executive committee of seven members who have charge 
of the work of the association and of securing proper legislation 
and suggesting amendments to the bankruptcy laws to congress. 
The other six members of this committee are from distant parts 
of the Union and the septette are men of high standing in the 
legal profession." 

At the meeting of the National Association of Referees in 
Bankruptcy held at Buffalo in August, 1901, ]\lr. Davock was 
elected one of its vice-presidents. In 1901 he was appointed non- 
resident lecturer and professor on Practice in Bankruptcy in the 
Law Department of the University of Michigan by its Regents, 
and has already delivered two courses of lectures. 

He is a member of the Detroit Boat Club, University Club and 
society Sons of the American Revolution ; a director of the Far- 
rand ()rgan Co. and a director and member of the ^Michigan Club, 
and president of the board of trustees of the Westminster Presby- 
terian Church of Detroit. He was married January 4th, 1883. to 
Sarah Whiting Peabody and has had three children. Clarence W. 
Davock, age 18: Harlow Xoble Davock. age 16, and Henry Whit- 
ing Davock, died February 19th, 1894. age 6 years and 6 months. 



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George Ellis Dawson, A.M. 
Chicago, III. 

Was born June 23, 1847, ^^^ 
the village of Loami, Sangamon 
Co., 111. When about five years 
of age he removed with his father 
to Jacksonville. 111., where he at- 
tended school regularly until '59, 
when he went to live upon a farm 
near New Berlin, a village on the 
Wabash R. R. about half way be- 
tween Jacksonville and Spring- 
field. In the fall of '61, removed 
to Springfield where he worked a 
couple of years in his father's 
plow and blacksmith shop. He 
was graduated in the class of '64, 
in Springfield High School. Worked the following year in the 
Provost Marshal's office for the eighth district of Illinois. From 
September, '65, to September, '66, Dawson prepared for entering 
upon the classical course at the university, not having theretofore 
studied Latin and Greek. Entered the University of Michigan 
with class of '70 in September, '66. In college he was one of the 
editors of the Oracle, one of the speakers at second Sophomore 
exhibition, a member of the Alpha Xu, and the Philozetian, a 
member of the University Glee Club, and president of his class in 
the Senior year. In the fall of '70. he accepted the position of 
principal of the High School at Flint. Mich., where he taught but 
one year. The next year he went to Buffalo, N. Y.. as principal 
of Grammar School No. 4, and continued until March, 'yz, when 
he took charge of the department of ancient languages in Buft'alo 
Central High School. Here he remained until he went to Europe 
in the sunmier of '74. He was abroad ajjout two years. Went 
first to Leipzig where he spent seven months. Studied German 



84 Class of '70, University of AIichigan. 

language and literature and took lectures on Roman Law given 
by Prof. Winscheid, a very popular lecturer. In the winter of '75, 
a number of Michigan University graduates had a reunion there, 
among whom were Dawson, E. C. Lovell, '68; A'. S. Lovell, "70; 
Underwood, J^; Maple, '72; Bennett, '72, and perhaps one or 
two others. From Leipzig he went to Gottingen, stopping over at 
A\'eimar and at Eisenach, visiting the castle of Wartburg. Daw- 
son went, about Aug. i, "75, in company with Prof. Walter, of U. 
of ]\I., to Cassel, across to Dusseldorf, then up the Rhine, stopping 
at the different places of interest, Cologne. Bonn, Coblenz, Fort- 
ress of Ehrenbreitstein, Bingen, Mainz, then on to Frankfort, 
Carlsruhe, Baden, over to Strasburg. back to Freiberg and Berne 
and then to Geneva. They made a pedestrian tour of six weeks 
through Switzerland and the Tyrol. Dawson parted from Prof. 
Walter at Munich and went to Italy and visited the important 
cities, remaining three months in Rome. In December, '75, he 
went by way of Mt. Cenis tunnel and Lyons to Paris, where he 
remained three months, then to London for a stay of about a 
month and then to Philadelphia, arriving in time to witness the 
opening of the Exposition in '76. He spent that summer on a 
farm and afterwards taught in high school at Springfield, 111. 
The next two years he was principal of the high school at Peoria, 
111., and then became principal of Washington School in Chicago 
for two years. 

In June, '81, having read law for some time, he passed the 
examination for admission to the bar, resigned his position at the 
Washington School and commenced the practice of law in Chi- 
cago. In November, '82. he entered into partnership with Isaac 
H. Pedrick of the law class of '70, U. of M., ^Nlaltman, of '70, 
Pedrick's former partner, having gone West permanently for his 
health. The firm has continued in the general practice of law up 
to the present time (1902), occupying the same suite of offices 
in the First National Bank Building, Chicago. 

In June, 1892, Mr. Dawson was invited by the attorney of the 
Sanitarv District of Chicagfo to assist in the work of that munici- 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 85 

pality. The Sanitary District is peculiar in the fact that it is a 
separate municipality distinct from the City of Chicago, the 
County of Cook or any of the towns included in the limits of 
Chicago and yet, as it were, overlying these within its own limits 
and having independent power of taxation for its own purposes. 

Air. Dawson had special charge of the legal work connected 
with the acquirement of the right of way for the great drainage 
and ship canal whose purpose was to turn the waters of Lake 
Michigan into the Alississippi River. Over two and one half 
million dollars worth of land was acquired hy the District during 
Air. Dawson's connection with it. In the fall of 1894 the attorney 
of the Sanitary District having been elected County Judge, Mr. 
Dawson was promoted from principal assistant and became at- 
torney of the board, which position he retained until January, 1896, 
when he resumed active work with his firm from which he had 
not severed his connection. Since 1896 he has continued in gen- 
eral practice. 

Mr. Dawson has never held any political ofiice, but from time 
to time has been drafted into work of a more or less public 
character in connection with committees of organizations formed 
for public purposes. He is a member of the Executive Commit- 
tee of the Legislative League, whose purpose is to examine into 
and publish all information that can be obtained touching the 
qualifications of candidates for the State Legislature. It is a non- 
partisan body whose aim will be to make accessible to the voters 
the business, public record, education, etc., of candidates so that 
voters may make an intelligent choice. 

He is also chairman of the Educational Commission appointed 
by the Civic Eederation of the city to consider and report upon a 
revision of the school system of the city. 

Mr. Dawson is a member of the Chicago Literary Club, the 
Irocjuois Club, the City and State Bar Associations, Le Cercle 
Litteraire and other societies. He has kept up his acquaintance 
with the German, French and Italian languages, and has frequent 
occasion to use them in his business. 



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Air. Dawson was married September 29th, 1885. to Eva 
Manierre, daughter of an old resident of Chicago. The fact that 
she is an accompHshed pianist, having tinished her studies in 
BerHn and Vienna, has enabled him to continue in his home the 
enjoyment of music which furnished many pleasant hours of 
recreation and improvement in the university. They have four 
boys: George Edward, born December 12, 1886; Alanierre, born 
December 22, 1887; Alitchell, born May 13, 1890, and Lovell, born 
January 28, 1897. The latter was named after our deceased class- 
mate, Mncent S. Lovell. 

His present address is "First National Bank Building, Chicago, 
111." 



William Rufus Day, B.S., LL.D. 

Canton, O. 

Was born at Ravenna, Port- 
age County, Ohio, April 17, 1849. 
His father. Judge Luther Day, 
was a lawyer of eminence and 
served two terms on the bench of 
the supreme court of Ohio. On 
his mother's side, his grand- 
father was Rufus P. Spalding, a 
member of congress from the 
State of Ohio, and his great 
grandfather was Zephaniah 
Swift, who was chief justice of 
the supreme court of Connecticut 
and author "Swift's Digest." 
His early education was in the 
local public schools at Ravenna and in 1866 he entered the Uni- 
versity of Michigan with the class of 1870, taking the full four 
years course and was graduated with the class. Earlv in his col- 




Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 87 

lege career he became a member of Alpha Delta Phi, of which 
Judge Cooley and his two sons. Eugene and Edgar, were mem- 
bers, and Day had the good fortune to be invited into the hospit- 
able Cooley home. and. during a considerable portion of his- 
course, participated in the privileges which that association gave. 
No one who, during those years, had the opportunity for personal- 
contact with Judge and Mrs. Cooley in their interesting and at- 
tractive home could fail to estimate a privilege of entree there as 
of priceless value. Earlier in his course Dlay had rooms in the 
"Goodrich" house, just across the street from the High School 
building, and later he and "Judge" Thayer shared rooms together 
during the winter of senior year. He was one of the speakers at 
the second Sophomore exhibition and was a member of the Liter- 
ary Adelphi. 

Immediately after graduation, Day turned to the study of law, 
a profession to which he was doubtless by heredity inclined. He 
read law for some time at Ravenna in the office of Judge G. F. 
Robinson, after which he entered the law department of the uni- 
versity and graduated with the class of 1872. He served as 
librarian of the law department library. In July, 1872, he was 
admitted to the Bar in Ohio and soon formed a partnership with 
William A. L}nch, at Canton, Ohio. It was there, in the earlv davs 
of his practice, that he made the acquaintance of the prosecuting 
attorney of Stark County, William AIcKinley, Jr., which resulted 
in a life-long friendship, of much import to himself and his 
country and subsequently furnished the opportunity for the exer- 
cise of those rare faculties of statesmanship and diplomacy which 
responded fully to the demands of a critical period in our national 
history. 

We are unable to follow him through the many years devoted 
to the laborious work of active practice of the law. It is fair to 
assume that it was only out of prolonged and well-sustained 
eft'orts of an active professional life that supreme fitness for the 
grave work assigned to Day in Washington could have been 
reached. [Meanwhile, he had been elected Judge of the Court of 



88 Class of "70, University of Michigan. 

Common Pleas of the 9th Judicial District of Ohio, which office 
he shortly resigned to resume practice. In 1889 President Harri- 
son appointed him as U. S. District Judge for the Northern Dis- 
trict of Ohio, an appointment which he declined on account of 
failing health. 

His personal friendship with 'Mr. jMcKinley led him to an 
active participation in the political campaign of 1896 after ]Mr. 
McKinley's nomination for the presidency, at a sacrifice of his 
personal interests. It is true that for many years Mr. McKinley 
had been accustomed to rely very largely upon Day's friendly 
advice, having implicit confidence in his integrity and his freedom 
from selfish interest. Almost immediately after his inauguration 
he made an appeal to Day for his services as a commissioner to 
make a special investigation in Cuba, but before he could leave 
for his post he was appointed First Assistant Secretary of State 
and immediately inducted into that important office. Secretary 
Sherman w^as in failing health and shortly became almost com- 
pletely disabled, so that the entire burden and responsibilitv for 
conducting the business of that department, in the face of an im- 
pending war, was thrown upon him almost immediately after as- 
suming office. A year later Mr. Sherman retired and Day became 
his successor, on April 25, 1898. War had already been declared 
against Spain and the United States was menaced with inter- 
ference by some of the European powers, while actual annoyances 
on the part of Germany and the most obnoxious conduct on that 
of the press and people of France had been manifested. 

It is a settled opinion amongst those who had the best oppor- 
tunity of observing Day's administration of the department at 
this critical period, that he conducted the negotiations, before and 
after the war, with admirable judgment and displayed a personal 
skill in diplomacy that has been rarely equalled in that great 
office. It was through his efforts that an entente eordiale with 
European governments was brought about which confined the 
conflict to the powers directly concerned. 

One of the striking incidents of his administration was in con- 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 89 

nection with the matter of the letter written by the Spanish 
Ambassador, De Lome, in which he spoke disparagingly of Presi- 
dent McKinley, and of his sincerity in relation to Spanish ques- 
tions, which letter was intercepted and published. Day abandoned 
diplomatic tradition, made a personal call upon the Ambassador 
(who had resigned the day before) and by this prompt action 
obtained the identitication of the letter by De Lome, and thereby 
secured a prompt and straightforward solution of the difficulty. 

During the war he was unremitting in his efforts for an honor- 
able peace. The hopelessness of the struggle on the part of Spain 
was soon apparent and early in August Jules Cambon, the French 
Ambassador, made approaches in behalf of Spain wdiich led to the 
signing of a protocol, on August 12, 1898, which provided for the 
suspension of hostilities and recited the general conditions upon 
which a formal treaty of peace might be made. This protocol 
was signed, on the part of the LTnited States, by William R. Day, 
Secretary of State. The negotiations leading to this formal act 
were conducted by Day with great skill and delicacy and in such 
a way that every advantage desired by his government was ob- 
tained without exciting the animosity of humiliated Spain. 

This important work practically terminated his services as 
Secretary of State, as he was immediately named as one of the 
Peace Commissioners to represent the L'nited States at Paris. The 
protocol required, on the part of both Spain and the United States, 
the appointment of not more than five commissioners, to meet at 
Paris not later than October i, 1898. then and there to negotiate 
a treaty of peace. The names of the American Commissioners 
were announced September 9, 1898, as follows: William R. Day, 
Secretary of State, Cushman K. Davis, William P. Frye and 
George Gray, Senators, and Whitelaw Reid, Journalist. The sit- 
tings of this Commission began in Paris on October ist w'ith Day 
as the presiding officer. 

The several members of this Commission are well known for 
eminent character and distinguished services. One of the most 
striking and valuable members was Cushman K. Davis, another 



90 Class of "70, University of Michigan. 

son of Ann Arbor, whose recent untimely death was universally 
regarded as a public calamity. He had taken a commanding posi- 
tion in the United States Senate where he was chairman of the 
Committee on Foreign Afifairs and was recognized as one of the 
greatest authorities on international law and as measuring up to 
the highest standard of statesmanship. It is an interesting and 
gratifying reflection that our university furnished two members 
of this distinguished Commission and, without making any in- 
vidious distinction, the two most important and valuable members. 
Spain was represented by some of her al)lest publicists, trained in 
the arts of diplomacy, and equal to any that could be found in any 
court of Europe, and the task set for our American Commissioners 
was no light one. 

America has in recent years initiated a new school of diplo- 
macy, substituting straightforward and direct methods for the 
sinuous and deceptive lines of old-time diplomacy. The adoption 
of this policy has violated hoary traditions and shocked the courts 
of Europe accustomed to the ancient deceptions, false movements 
and finesse of the profession of diplomacy. The substantial ad- 
vantages which have already accrued to the United States (not- 
ably in the C)rient ) by the introduction of candor, fairness and 
absolute justice into their negotiations with foreign governments, 
has commanded the attention of the world. 

While the initiation of this policy can not be claimed for Day, 
it is certain that it found in him, as Secretary of State, its best 
exponent. In one respect at least it was fortunate that he came to 
the administration of our foreign affairs untrammelled by the 
possibly narrowing influences of previous diplomatic experience. 
His mind was entirely free from constraints usuallv imposed up- 
on even American diplomatists, many of whom have found it im- 
possible to escape from the tortuous path of diplomatic precedent 
which had been well beaten through many centuries b}' great rep- 
resentatives of all the Chancellories of Europe. These precedents 
were not insuperable to him and were brushed aside as unworthy 
and inapplicable in a country which neither desired nor sought to 



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acquire any unfair advantaci^e. Tn many notalile instances his 
successor, Secretary Hay, has tDllowcd lliis jioHcy and it seems 
quite hkeh' that Iviui;- and deception will soon g'row to he re- 
gartled as ecjually dishorn irahle whether ])racticed hetween the 
representatives of great empires or hetween man and man. 13ay's 
administration of the State Department undouhtedly determined 
and fixed this as a settled policy of the I'nited States respecting' 
diplomatic methods, and that fact will not constitute the least 
important ground upon which he will he assigned high rank in 
the list of great Secretaries of State. 

It should he an interesting fact to every memher of '70 that, 
during his term of Secretary of State, Day had in the im])ortant 
office of Solicitor of the State Department, another ahle repre- 
sentative of the old class, Penfield, in whose clear judgment, in- 
defatigal)le industry and loyal support he found a safe reliance, 
and who is ra])idlv securing for himself an en\iahle position in 
the field of international law. While these lines are heing written 
Penfield is at The Hague, participating in the argument of the first 
case suhmitted hefore a trihunal organized under The Hague In- 
ternational Arhitration Agreement. 

The treaty with S])ain was signed on Decemher 10, 1898, and 
Da}- immediately returned and presented it to the President. 
Against the urgent wishes of the President, he retired from public 
office and resumed the practice of law, hut in h>hruary. 1899. was 
appointed U. S. Circuit Judge for the 6th judicial Circuit, the 
duties of which office he is now discharging with marked ahility. 

Day was married in 1875 to Mary E., daughter of Louis 
Schaefer, a prominent citizen of Canton. They have had four 
children, William L., Luther, Stephen and Rufus. 



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Class of '70, University of Michigan. 




Charles Kecne Dodge^ A.B. 

Port Huron, Mich. 

He was l)orn the 26th day of 
April, 1844, in the Township of 
Blackman, Jackson Co., Michi- 
s^an. on a farm five miles north of 
the City of Jackson. His father, 
William Roijers Dodge, was horn 
at Uoomville, X. Y., in 1816, on a 
farm ; came to Michigan in 1836 
and settled near the City of Jack- 
son. In 1841 he honght a farm 
of 80 acres of wild, uncultivated 
land. He was always a farmer. 
1 lere Charles K., with his four 
hrothers, spent his hoyhood in the 
primitive oak forest of Michigan. 
j\Ir. Dodge's ancestor, Richard Dodge, came over from England 
in 1638 and settled on a farm near Beverly in Massachusetts. His 
great grandfather. Ehenezer Dodge, was a soldier of the Revolu- 
tion, and his hody rests in the cemetery at Keene, N. H. Mr. 
Dodge is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. His 
mother, Caroline Emma Hoyt Dodge, was born near Syracuse, 
N. Y., in 1823, on a farm; came to Michigan in 1836 and settled 
near the City of Jackson. Charles K. Dodge's father died Janu- 
ary 2, 1897, and his mother Alarch i, 1901, at Jackson, ^Michigan. 
INIr. Dodge's education was begun in the coimtry schools. He 
worked on the farm sunnners and went to school winters. In the 
spring of 1861, his father moved to a farm near the City of Jack- 
son where the facilities for education were much better. Prepara- 
tion for college was partially made in the L'nion school at Jackson, 
then superintended by Prof. Daniel B. Briggs. In 1865 Mr. 
Dodge went to Ann Arbor, attended the l^nion school there, and 
entered the class of '69, in part. In 1866 he was graduated in the 



Department oe Literature, Science, and Arts. 93 

Union school at Ann Arbor and entered the University of Michi- 
gan in the fall with the class of '70, pursuing- a classical course. 
At the university he was known as an independent, was one of 
the speakers at the first Sophomore exhibition and also at the 
Junior exhibition, was a member of the Literary Adelphi and the 
Philozetian societies. 

Immediately after graduation he obtained a school at Rock- 
land, Ontonagon Co., in the copper district of the Upper Peninsula 
of Michigan, and held that school two years. He then went to 
Hancock, Houghton Co., and took charge of the public school, 
remaining two years. He then, in June, 1874, went into the law 
office of Hubbell & Chadbourne at Houghton, Michigan. After 
studying law^ something more than a year he was admitted to the 
bar in September, 1875, and went to Port Huron, Michigan, to 
practice law. He continued the practice of law there till the 
spring of 1889, when he went to Ogden, Utah, with the intention 
of opening a law^ ofifice at that place. Not liking the West for law 
practice, he engaged in a railway survey, camping out two sum- 
mers. In the spring of 1891 he went to Monterey, Old Mexico, 
remaining for some months. From there, after being away two 
years, he returned to Port Huron and again began the practice of 
law. In September, 1893, he was appointed to a position in the 
United States Customs at Port Huron as one of the deputies, 
which position he still holds. He continues the practice of law. 

August 4, 1897, Dodge married Millie Wilhelmina Burns, a 
young lady of Detroit. No children. 

He has been to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, New 
Orleans, Portland, Quebec, Montreal and Toronto. In 1881 he 
attended the Centennial Celebration at Yorktown, Virginia. In 
politics he is a Democrat. In 1880, he was elected city attorney 
for the City of Port Huron and again in 1885. In 1882 he was 
elected circuit court commissioner for the County of St. Clair and 
again in 1884. In 1886 he was elected as comptroller of the City 
of Port Huron. In 1888 he was nominated by the Democrats of 
his county for judge of probate, but was not elected. His favorite 
recreation is botany, and he has published a list of the wild plants 
of his locality. He has a pleasant home at 2805 Gratiot Ave., Port 
Huron, having about 4^ acres of land in one piece. 



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Class of '70, Universitv of Michigan. 




William Thomas Emerson, B.S. 
Died at Racine, Wisconsin, August 29, 1897. 

He was the eldest son of Hon. 
Thomas J. Emerson and Ehza J. 
Woochiian. and was l)orn in Ra- 
cine. Wisconsin, July 2t^. 1848. 
He grew to manhood in the citv 
o{ his hirth. attending the puhhc 
schools and acciniring the higher 
edncation afforded hy Racine 
College, where he completed his 
Freshman year in 1867. He then 
entered the Sophomore class of 
the L'niversity of Michigan, tak- 
ing the literary and scientific 
conrse. He was a meml)er of the 
Sigma Phi college fraternity, and 
was graduated with honor in 1870. In college he was a member 
of the Literary Adelphi. 

Having shown great proficiency in engineering, he was selected 
by the Government to assist in the coast survey of the Great Lakes, 
and such was his success and popularity that the Surveying De- 
partment made strong efifort to retain his services. However, he 
declined to remain longer in Government employ, but determined 
to follow the profession of his honored father, and in 187 1 took 
up the study of law in the office of Fuller & Dyer, the leading law 
firm in Racine. Devoting himself diligently to this great study, 
after two years of close application, he was admitted to the Racine 
County Bar in 1873. The active practice of law not being cjuite to 
his taste and habits of thought, he was persuaded by his father to 
turn aside from law and assist him in the management of the 
Emerson Linseed Oil Works, one of the largest and most success- 
ful industries in Racine. estal)lished by his father in 1872. This 
position he continued to hold until his death, and the great sue- 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 95 

cess of this business (which in so many instances had proved a 
failure) is attributed in large measure to his excellent judgment, 
his rare foresight, and his conservative methods. Such was the 
confidence of the pu1)lic in his ability and perspicacity that his 
counsel and assistance were sought by those having large business 
enterprises in charge, and he was elected a director in the Union 
National Bank of Racine, and a director and treasurer of the 
Chicago Rubber Clothing Co. As a man of unquestioned probity 
and sound judgment he ranked high, and the success of those 
enterprises to which he gave his thought and personal attention 
seemed assured from the start. 

In 1894 his health began to fail. For many weeks he was con- 
fined to his home, and then his heroic nature and fine constitution 
came to the rescue, and he seemed slowly and bravely fighting his 
way back to health and renewed life. The fiush of yovith and 
beauty again touched his cheek, and the spring of strength ac- 
companied his footsteps. He took long walks through forest and 
field, and communed with nature in her loneliness and silence. 
The months went by and the loveliness of earth and sky, and the 
soft, sweet whisperings of wind and wave seemed wrought into 
his character and thought. The sweetness and calm content of 
childhood came over his longing spirit, and in the love of parents 
and brother, and in the beatitude of his home life there was real- 
ized a foretaste of heavenly joy. Only for a few months was 
the finger of fate lifted from his brow, and then came what seemed 
a relapse, and his steps went steadily down the declivity of life. 
The skill of loving and learned physicians could not avail. Day 
by day the pulsation of his heart became weaker and the lines of 
pain and distress deepened upon his countenance, but without a 
murmur of complaint, without a sigh even of regret, with thoughts 
only of home and those he loved, he watched the mysterious 
shadows of the night gathering over and about him. Sweet and 
holy memories thronged the long hours of that last Sabbath on 
earth, filling his soul with peace, and when the sun went down he 
fell asleep. 



96 Class of '70, University of jMichigan. 

The death of WiUiam T. Emerson is a pathetic tragedy — 
"Gone in youth's glorious prime;" gifted heyond his fellows in 
powers of bodv and mind : with signal ability to solve the hard 
problems of life and compete successfully in the struggle for 
pre-eminence ; the student, scholar, and capable business man ; the 
strong support of his parents in their declining years ; in the ma- 
turity of his manhood and work ; generous, unselfish, large-hearted, 
noble, kind and true — thus to contemplate his life and untimely 
death, brings, to all who knew and admired him, feelings of in- 
expressible sadness and regret. The only comfort for hearts thus 
sorrowing and bereaved is listening to the voice of God saying : 
"What I do, thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know here- 
after." 

In beautiful Alound Cemetery his remains were laid to rest 
beside those of his only sister, Helen, a lovely girl, who departed 
this life July 17, 1872. 

His father, Hon. Thomas J. Emerson, is still living at Racine. 

Charles S. Edwards, A.M. 
York, Neb. 

Born in ^larshall County, Illinois, Nov. 6, 1840, his father be- 
ing a farmer. Einished preparation for college at Aurora, 111., 
and at Ypsilanti. He entered the University of Michigan with the 
class of '69, but was graduated with '70. He was a member of the 
Alpha Nu literary society and the Philozetian debating club. Im- 
mediately after graduation he was elected principal of the public 
schools in Sparland, 111., which position he filled for eight years, 
having been also elected county superintendent of schools for 
Marshall County in 'jt,, and re-elected in 'yy. In the summer of 
'78, he was elected superintendent of the city schools of Lacon, 
Marshall Co., continuing to act in both capacities at the same 
time, holding institutes part of the time during the summer sea- 
son. He filled these positions until '85, when he went to York, 
Neb., and took charge of the public schools at that place and 



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served as superintendent until the close of the school year of '88. 
In August. "88, he went into business, at York, as a grain dealer 
and was so engaged at last accounts. 

Married Miss Martha I!oys ]March 28. '71. His wife died 
June 19. "79. leaving no children. In October, '85, married Miss 
Lizzie M. Simpson. Nothing has been heard from him for some 
time. 



Russell Errett, A.B. 
Cincinnati, O, 



The subject of this sketch was 
l>orn at Xew Lisbon, O., Septem- 
ber 6. 1845. His father, Isaac 
Errett. was a minister and resided 
at various times, at Xew Lisbon, 
Bloomfield, Warren, Cleveland 
and Alliance, in the State of 
Ohio; Muir and Detroit in 
Michigan, and finally located 
])ermanently at Cincinnati as 
editor and publisher of the Chris- 
tian Standard. Russell acquired 
his early instruction in these 
several places. He attended 
Detroit High School one year and 
Bethany College, West Mrginia, three years. His connection with 
the class of '70 dates from September, 1868, when he entered the 
University of Michigan, and at once took high standing in the 
class, being 6 feet 3, which he valorously maintained to the end. 
He joined no college organization, except "Ye Parlez \'ous" — a 
boarding club. 

Immediately after Commencement in June, "70, he applied for 
the position of superintendent of a select school at Crittenden. Ky., 




98 Class of '70, University of jMichigan. 

but, as he wrote a few years later, "Ijy the blessings of Providence 
failed to get it." He had found a more congenial occupation in 
assisting his father, editor and publisher of the Christian Standard. 
a. weekly paper, and other Christian literature and books of various 
kinds. He succeeded his father as editor and manager of the 
various issues of the Standard Publishing Co. and has been very 
active and successful in the business for many years. He is mar- 
ried and has a pleasant family. He takes life philosophically and 
apparently is getting his full share of enjoyment out of it. He 
complains because he does not oftener see his old classmates, but 
perhaps the fault is partly his own. His presence at the next 
class re-union will I)e anxiously looked for. His pristine modesty 
still abides with him. It was only by urgent and repeated solicita- 
tion that he was induced to furnish a picture of himself for this 
book. In response to a request for data for a life sketch he re- 
cently wrote: "You will, I am sure, appreciate my feelings when 
I assure you that I do not find half as much to relate of myself 
now as I would have done twenty-five years ago, at which time I 
seemed a much greater figure to myself than I can now find any- 
thing in the facts to justify. Whether I take it by months, or 
years, or decades, the sum total, somehow or other, always comes 
out composed exclusively of that character known in ]:)ase ball 
parlance as the 'goose egg;' and while a long succession of this 
curve of beauty might be very ornamental as a work of art, I am 
not altogether satisfied of its value as history. Aly only comfort 
is, that if I would indite it honestly it might render me famous as 
a rival of Colonel Mulberry Sellers. This much I will say. how- 
ever, for the sake of '70 and the class history, that I will try and 
find five minuets some day and sit down and tell the whole thing. 
I have a good stenographer, and it is just possible that through 
that source something worthy of record may creep into the ac- 
count. I am thankful to you for allowing me 1,500 words, but, 
I take it. it is like a bill of fare at a first-class hotel, one need not 
take it all unless he wants to." 

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found that five minutes, and until they do we must allow our 
imaginations to fill in the gap to suit our own fancies. His present 
address is 216-220 East Ninth Street, Cincinnati, O. 



Robert Newton Fearon, A.M. 

Ironton^ O. 

Was born March 14th, 1839, 
on a farm in Madison County, 
New York. His grandfather 
came from Ireland and was one 
of the first settlers in that part of 
the state. The old homestead, 
which was redeemed bv his father 
and grandfather from the prinie- 
'val forest, still remains in hands 
of the family. His early educa- 
tion was such as two or three 
months of country school in mid- 
winter afiforded. and during this 
short period his attendance at 
school was very irregular, for the 
sheep and cattle and the year's supply of wood, etc., must first be 
looked after. Thus until years of manhood, but the merest 
smattering of the common branches were at his command. 

At the age of fourteen, while a mere lad, he was led to see his 
lost condition under the preaching of George Bridge. He went to 
a Methodist altar and was converted and joined the church of his 
father and grandfather. 

As the years rolled by a thirst for a better education, as a 
means of more extended usefulness, grew upon him ; but how to 
get away from home and the care of a large farm was the puzzle. 
His father seemed unwilling to spare him and it w'as not until after 
his majority that he could do much towards preparation for col- 

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100 Class of '70, University of jNIichic.an. 

lege and then only by odd terms at the Oneida Conference Semi- 
nary at Cazenovia, New York. But there he spent some of his 
most enjoyable days. 

After a very hastv and inc(im]:)lete preparation for college, in 
the year 1866. he entered the Freshman year at the Weslyan Uni- 
versity at Middletown, Conn., and the following year went west 
to the University of Michigan and entered the Sophomore class 
of '69. The next year he dropped out of college to teach school 
and the following year re-entered college in the Junior year with 
the class of '70 and was graduated with this class. While in col- 
lege he became a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and 
the Alpha Xu literary society. After graduation he spent some 
ten years in teaching or superintending public schools, interrvipted, 
however, by one or two years in business. Tn 1879 the degree of 
Master of Arts was conferred upon him by the Syracuse Uni- 
versity. 

In 1 87 1 he married Frances Darrow, a graduate of the Oneida 
Conference Seminary, at which institution he made her acquaint- 
ance. In 1873, while living in the City of Minneapolis and act- 
ing as principal of the high school in that city, a son was born to 
them, who was named Robert D. and two years later a daughter, 
Anna. The daughter died in infancy when only six weeks old, 
and the son fell a victim to scarlet fever when a little more than 
three years old. Thus the home was left childless and remained 
so until 1884, when a little daughter was given them, wlio was 
named Josephine, and three years later another daughter, who was 
named Dora. These are both still living and merging into woman- 
hood. Josephine expects to enter college next year and Dora as 
soon as her pre]:)aratory studies are completed. 

The past eighteen years Mr. Fearon has been in the lumber 
business with varied success, but is now employing some seventy 
men, and running quite an extensive lumber plant at Ironton, O. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 101 



Edwin Fleming, A.M. 
Buffalo, N. Y. 

He was born at West Lebanon, 
Warren Co., Ind., Dec. ii. 1847. 
His father, Jackson Fleming, was 
a physician. Edwin's early educa- 
tion was acquired in the common 
schools at his native place, supple- 
mented by one year's study at 
Indianapolis. He entered the 
L^niversity of Michigan in Sep- 
tember. 1865, but withdrew for 
one year during which he taught 
school and returned in Septem- 
ber, 1868, joining the class of '70, 
with which he was graduated. In 
college he joined the Alpha Delta 
Phi fraternity, the Alpha Nu literary society and was a member 
of the University Glee Club. Was a speaker at the first Sopho- 
more exhibition, at the Junior exhibition and at Commencement 
exercises. He was one of the editors of The University Chronicle. 
After graduation Mr. Fleming became a member of the city 
staff of the Detroit Post. During the winter of 1870-71 he had 
charge of the telegraph desk of the Detroit Trilnme. Later in 
1 87 1, he did special reporting for the Detroit Tribune in various 
parts of Michigan. In 1872 he had editorial charge, first of the 
Kalamazoo Telegraph and then of the Jackson Citizen. In Decem- 
ber, 1872. he went to Washington as correspondent for various 
papers during the session of congress. He went to Europe in 
1873, traveled and studied for eighteen months and returned to 
Washington in the fall of 1874, where he became the Washington 
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102 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

merce, the New York Commercial Bulletin, the Detroit Free Press 
(from 1875 to 1885). the St. Louis Republic (from 1881 to 1885), 
the Buffalo Courier (from January i. 1877. to June i, 1885), and 
from June i, 1885, to June i, 1897, he was the editor of the 
Buffalo Courier. Was elected secretary of the Pan-American 
Exposition Company in March, 1899. Was married to Miss 
Harriet L. Stone, of Kalamazoo, Mich.. April 20, 1881. 



Achilles Finley, A.B. 
Fulton, Mo. 

He was born in Calloway County, Mo., near Bloomfield, May 
15, 1843, his father. Ebenezer Finley, being a farmer. He was in 
the Confederate army about four years in Co. A, ist Mo. Regt. 
He first entered the Cniversity of Missouri and then joined class 
of '70, in the Universit_\- of Michigan as a sophomore. In college 
he was a member of the Literary Adelphi. After graduating he 
was engaged four years in teaching, then entered upon the study 
and practice of law at Fulton, Calloway Co., Mo., where he was 
admitted to the bar. In November, '78, he was elected prosecuting 
attorney of Calloway Co., which position he filled with credit to 
himself and satisfaction to the people. He is supposed to be 
engaged in the practice of his profession at Fulton, Mo. No word 
has come from him for some years, however. 

He married Miss Alice Wilkerson, Nov. 21, "78. A daughter, 
Madge, was born August 21, '79. 



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Luther Elliott Ferguson, C.E. 

"White Pigeon, Mich. 

He was born September 22, 1845, on the old homestead, where 
he still lives surrounded by all the farm comforts necessary for an 
advancing old age. He says : "No one will probably care to read 
of the good old-fashioned Puritanical training the boy received as 
he grew up to majority and started away from home to complete 
his scholastic education at the University of Michigan. Still 
further, each member of "70 can recall enough pleasant memories 
of the young man while resident four years at Ann x\rbor." He 
was a member of the Literary Adelphi in college. 

Since the dispersion exercises on that memorable June day in 
1870, when each cut loose from old ties and commenced the in- 
dependent and important part of his life, he informs us, that mis- 
takes and successes with him have been about equally balanced. 
Not having means and foresight enough to locate between the 
twin cities of Minnesota in 1872 when looking over that situation 
was, he thinks, unfortunate. Having had a taste and some train- 
ing for mineralogy in the laboratory, success for him might have 
been assured had a location been made properly when visiting the 
region in the vicinity of Helena and I'.utte in ]\Iontana in the same 
year, 1872. 

He remarks that the horticultural training of youth would have 
proved of more value than the engineering training of the uni- 
versitv, if foresight had been as acute as the Dutchman's hind- 
sight in regard to the possibilities of Los Angeles in California in 
1873. But tramps began to be plentiful in California in that year 
and the young man, after tramping into the Yosemite to see the 
glorious beauties of the valley and of the big trees, turned towards 
the old heme on the lianks of the \\'hite Pigeon, the finest black- 
bass stream in northern Indiana and southern ^Michigan. 

He tells us that for three years or more the deadly contracting 
efifects of the panic of 1873, cut short the expanding view of many 
a voung prospective engineer, and farming seemed to be the only 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 105 



vocation left that could not be ruined by the blighting effect of 
the mistaken social and financial policy of that time. So laying 
aside the things that were behind, and formulating the ideal of a 
comfortable home, the man of 30 years set about to realize it. By 
clearing up the virgin forest, improving the natural groves, plant- 
ing an orchard of various kinds of fruits, the result is Riverside 
Ranch. A cyclone tornado claimed the right of way across the 
ranch Alay 14. 1883. leveling, in its career of five minutes, every 
fence, destroying barns, pulling up the shade and orchard trees 
hy the roots, and teaching an object lesson of the frailty of natural 

things. 

Drouthv seasons follow each other in close succession, and the 
iDanker's panic of 1893 works disastrous havoc in social and 
financial circles, but at Riverside Ranch there has always been 
enough work to be done and a good appetite and willing hands 
to accomplish it. There has always been a stick of wood ready to 
put on the fire : plenty of flour for bread, and plenty of good fruit, 
either fresh or in cans, to eat with the bread three times a day 
€very day in the year. 

John A., the oldest of the family, 22 years of age, is now at 
Ann Arbor, 2d year, an engineering student. jMaude E., the eldest 
daughter, has passed through two years of the literary course at 
the same university, has been teaching, and will complete her 
scholastic course at the U. of U. at the age of twenty-four. Karl 
P., the second son, 19 years old, is in a neighboring high school. 
Margaret E., ten years old, has marked literary tastes. Mr. Fergu- 
son says : "The mother at Riverside Ranch strives with marked 
success to make of it a happy home. For some reason, best known 
to various members of '70, the Ranch has not had the privilege of 
entertaining any one of the old class, except Thomson, about 30 
years ago. Hence it would be a matter of great surprise and no 
little enjoyment to its inmates if some one, or all at once, should 
drop in for a visit. How to reach the place? Riverside Ranch is 
in the center of the universe, five miles from White Pigeon, six 
miles from Shipshewana, three miles from a railroad, two miles 
from a post office, and has telephone privileges with everywhere." 



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Class of 70, University of ]\Iichigan. 



In May, 1896, classmate Ferguson, through a serious acci- 
dent, came near heing numbered with the "has beens." A deter- 
mination to hve many more years is responsible for his gradual 
returning strength. One winter spent in Florida materially aided 
returning health. His expectation is to continuously enjoy the 
labor and material comforts of the farm, and participate in the 
profits of Texas oil, a gold mine, and to increase deposits in the 
Home Sand Bank, while guiding the development of the family. 

He says in reply to a request for his photograph, that he would 
rather be remembered as the bovs knew him. 



Morris Bishop Foster, B.S. 

Hector, Renville Co., Minn, 

If the aphorism "Happy is the 
nation whose annals are short" 
applies to men as well as to na- 
tions ^Ir. Foster should have 
grounds for contentment in that 
the salient points of his after col- 
lege life are not numerous. He 
was born Jan. 15, 1843, i''' Kt^t^ler- 
ville, \'an I'uren Co., Mich. His 
youth was passed very much as 
that of farmer's sons generally — 
in attending district school 
winters and helping on the farm 
summers. He joined the Union 
Army in September, '61. enlisting 
in Co. D, 66th Regt. 111. Vol. Inf. He took an active part in the- 
battles of Ft. Donelson, Shiloh or Pittsliurg Landing, Siege of 
Corinth, battle of Inka, battle of Corinth, and the daily skirmishes 
and encounters of Sherman's march to the sea. During the three 
years of his service he was ill and disabled for duty only about 
five weeks in all, having escaped wholly from being wounded in 




Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 107 

battle. On his return from the army he commenced preparation 
for college at the Union School, Decatur. Mich., from which he 
was graduated June 30, 1867. He entered the University of 
Michigan in September of the same year as a sophomore in the 
class of '70. He was a member of the Literary Adelphi and of the 
Philozetian debating club. 

Mr. Foster spent the two years following his graduation from 
the university in educational work in Michigan. He was superin- 
tendent of schools at Benton Harbor and also at Saginaw — one 
year at each place. At the latter place he married Miss Katherine 
Louise Folwell, of Kcndara. Seneca Co., New York, a graduate 
of Mount Holyoke College and a sister to Dr. W. W. Folwell, the 
political economist. 

From Saginaw Mr. Foster went to Minnesota. Was super- 
intendent of schools in the city of Wabasha for four years. While 
there he acquired land in Penville Co. and moved to Glencoe to be 
near his property interests. 

He held the position of superintendent of schools at Glencoe 
for two years until he decided to locate on his farm near Hector, 
where he has since lived, with the exception of five years in the 
village. 

In 1878 the railway was just pushing the frontier beyond the 
Minnesota line, but twenty-three years have made the North Star 
State the middle instead of the far West, and transformed an un- 
scathed prairie into a prosperous agricultural region. In his 
locality for many years he and his brother, Riley Foster (Ann 
Arbor, '72) were the only college men. His section now has a 
fair sprinkling of that element, Ann Arbor being represented in 
the younger generation. 

Mr. Foster has been continuously engaged in farming, but has 
found time to forward the local and educational interests of his 
section as supervisor and school board member for many years. 
He has been a close student of politics without being either a 
politician or a party devotee and has stood for Democratic national 
politics since Cleveland's first nomination. 

Mr. Foster has four children, three sons and a daughter, 
Adele Folwell, Bainbridge W., Thomas and Robert Morris. The 



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Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



first two are graduates of Hamline University, St. Paul. The 
younger sons are graduates of the high school at Hector. Bain- 
bridge, the eldest son, well-known in Minnesota athletic circles, 
is in the employ of the National Life and Trust Co. of Des Moines, 
la. Miss Foster follows high school teaching. Thomas is a sopho- 
more at Hamline. Robert, who combines some musical ability 
with a hammer throw record, has recently become a freshman at 
the same college. 

It is a source of regret to the subject of this sketch that, though 
he has returned several times to Michigan, he has so far not been 
able to revisit Ann Arbor or attend a class reunion. Nevertheless 
his loyalty to his Alma Mater has not grown cold, nor has his 
interest in her educational progress and athletic attainments be- 
come less keen than in 1870. 



George Jay French, A.B. 
Homttf Mich. 

He was born in a log house 
on a stony farm two miles north 
of Tekonsha, Mich., and ten miles 
south of Marshall on the old stage 
route between ^larshall and Cold- 
water. January 31. 1847. His 
father's name was Geo. H. 
French, born in Junius, Seneca 
Co., N. Y., January 18, 1820, died 
September 14, 1898. His grand- 
father was ])orn in Massachusetts. 
His mother's name was Sarah D. 
Redfield, ])orn in Junius, August 
21, 1820, and now resides in 
Homer. His father was quite a 
prominent man in politics and church and town affairs. He was 
state senator at Lansing two terms during the war of 1861 to 
1865. He was director in two railroads. For 40 years he was 




Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 109 

superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday School, and for many 
years elder in the Presbyterian Church. (jeorge J., with his 
parents, moved from Tekonsha to Homer at the early age of two 
years. He says: "I began attending district school at Homer at 
a time beycjnd my recollection, probably about 1852 or 1853. In 
looking back it seems as if there never was a time in my early 
history when I was not in school. I also attended Sunday School at 
an early age. I became a convert to the Christian religion in the 
spring of 1861, and joined the Presbyterian Church at Homer. 
Among the many teachers I was under may be mentioned Prof. 
Eugene Tenney and Harriet Tenney, who for many years was 
state librarian at Lansing. Rev. Bela Fancher was my instructor 
in Latin several years." 

In January, 1866. he entered the senior class at the Ypsilanti 
L^nion School under Prof. Estabrook, being graduated with the 
class of 1866. He entered the University of Michigan in Sep- 
tember, 1866. joined the literary society Alpha Nu and the 
Philozetian debating club. He was for a time in a Sunday School 
class at the Presbyterian Church under Prof. A. K. Spence. They 
used a Greek testament. His chum, during all the four years at 
Ann Arbor, except the first five weeks, was Charles R. Whitman, 
and he proved to be a good partner. Mr. French writes : "Our 
quarrels were few and of short duration. Almost invariably he 
would leave me Friday evening for Ypsilanti and return Mon- 
day morning. The attraction there was supposed to he a certain 
young lady, who afterward became his wife. One of the biggest 
scares I got while at Ann Arbor was when Penfield and I took a 
boat ride on the river and on our return the owner of the boat 
swore at us most diabolically and threatened to have us arrested 
for stealing his boat. I was in abject terror for several days there- 
after, expecting at any moment to see the officer of the law come 
and carry me off to jail, l)ut he came not." He was married 
February 15, 1882, at Oberlin, Ohio, to Ella May Rood. The 
children born to them are Anna Rood French, born Nov. 26, 
1882, and Edward Homer French, born June 24, 1887. He died 



110 Class of '70, University of jMichigan. 

September 30, 1898. After leaving' Ann Arbor in June, 1870, Mr. 
French engaged in the mercantile business with his father until 
1887, when they sold out and since that time George J. has been 
agent for different nurseries and has done considerable farm 
work. He has for years been a regular correspondent for several 
newspapers, viz., the Detroit Post. Detroit Free Press, the Mar- 
shall Statesman and the Jackson Daily Citizen. He was village 
recorder and school inspector for several }ears. He has not taken 
much interest in political questions, except as an on-looker, and 
has not aspired to public positions very much. Says "that he did 
at one time make an eft'ort to get the appointment as postmaster, 
but faikxl." As to his travels he says: "I have not attended the 
class reunions very much, but I was at Ann Arbor in June, 1876, 
on my way to the Filadeltia Exposition. In the winter of 1877-8 
I was in Kansas and Missouri, most of the time at Fort Scott, 
Kansas, and Carthage, Joplin and Nevada, Mo. I was clerk in a 
store part of the time and a book agent. I also spent a short time 
at Dennison, Texas. In 1874 I took a trip from Detroit to Chi- 
cago by the Great Lakes, stopping one hour at Mackinac, two 
hours at Charlevoix, and two hours at ^lilwaukee. In October, 
1872, I visited Xew York City, called upon Carter, who was there 
at that time. I visited New York again in 1876 and that is the 
last time I was there. I have visited Chicago, Detroit. Toledo, 
Cleveland. Cincinnati and St. Louis several times for business or 
pleasure. I have been in Washington only once, that was in 1876. 
My daittcr and I attended the grand encampment of the G. A. R. 
at Chicago in August. 1900. Though rather slender and frail 
looking, my health is generally good. I am one of the light 
weights. About 125 to 128 pounds is my average weight. I at- 
tended the reunion of June, 1900. and was so much pleased that 
I shall try and be present at all the reunions hereafter. My only 
regret was that I had not attended all of them, and my wife or 
daiitcr sJiitd Inn- bcii with me. The hospitable treatment at Prof. 
Beman's zcil long remain as a pleasant memory. U pcrsccz' soiii 
of mv sf'cliiig is pckuUar. I am and hav ben for years an adrocat 



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of the fonetic method and this is my excuse for the omission of 
soiii Ict'rs which seem J nic 2 b superfluous." 

Mr. French and wife visited the Pan-American Exposition at 
Buffalo in the month of ()ctol)er. 1901, spenchng some time there 
and at Xiatrara Fahs and vicinitv. 



Charles R Gilbert, C.E., M.E. 

Berkeley, California. 

He was l)orn ]\Iarch 16, 1846, 
at Bridgeport. Conn. His mother 
died when he was five years old. 
He attended l^oarding school in 
Connecticut and at Syracuse, X. 
Y., in his youth. Went to Florida 
with his father in 1858. His 
father died in 1862. Entered the 
Rehel army in '63 in First Battery 
of Florida Light Artillery. Was 
paroled in '65. when he went to 
X^orwalk. Conn., and prepared for 
college. Entered University of 
Michigan in class of '69, as sopho- 
more, hut failing eyesight com- 
pelled him to give up study at end of first semester. Entered class 
of '70 a year later, graduating, receiving degrees of C.E. and M.E. 
He was elected vice-president of his class in senior year. After 
Commencement, in June, '70, went to Sedalia. Mo., where he was 
employed as draughtsman and section engineer on M., K. & T. 
Railway. Was later engaged with Aleyendorff, of '70, in build- 
ing a bridge over the Wabash river and employed on "The Rail- 
road Ga.cette" at Chicago, reporting the progress and condition of 
bridge building in the West. From July, '71 - to August, '74, he 
was with X'^oble, of '70, on St. Mary's Falls Canal as U. S. assist- 



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ant engineer. In August. "74. he was sent to take charge of the 
construction of Sand Beach Harbor of Refuge on Lake Huron, 
where he remained until February, '88. He then accepted the 
position of secretary and general manager of the Edison Illuminat- 
ing Company of Detroit. ]Mich.. which company he had previously 
helped to organize. For three years he gave divided attention to 
the Government work at Sand Beach, Alich., and the Illuminating- 
Company in Detroit, until the completion of the work at Sand 
Beach. He remained with the Detroit Company until Jul}- i. 1896, 
\\hen failing in health and tempted by the glorious climate of 
California, where he had already spent several winters, he ac- 
cepted the position of general manager of the Sacramento Electric. 
Gas & Railway Co.. and located at Sacramento. Cal. At hrst the 
change was beneficial, but after two years residence on the Sacra- 
mento river he contracted swamp malaria and promptly resigned 
his position and moved to Berkeley. Cal.. a suburb of San Francisco. 
Shortly after he took the position of general manager of the 
Standard Electric Company of California, which compau}- was 
organized for the purpose of generating electric energy by water 
power, in the foothills of the Sierra mountains and transmitting 
the same to San Francisco and other coast cities, a distance of 
about 150 miles. From the active management of this company 
he drifted into the financial promotion of this and other projects. 
In order to be free to carry out these plans he severed his con- 
nection with the Standard Company April i, 1901. and has since 
then, to date, been taking life easier, giving only part of his time 
and attention to business matters. He enjoys fairly good health, 
but requires and takes occasional rest from active business. 

Was married May 22, 1872, to Mary J. Lull, of Chicago, 111. 
Children : Jennie Lull and Mary Louise. 

Alember Sigma Phi fraternity in college ; Knight Templar and 
32 degree Mason ; Noble of The jNIystic Shrine. 

In 1897 he organized the "Pacific Coast Electric Transmission 
Association" and was its first president. His present address is 
2527 Channing Way, Berkeley, California. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 113 




Otis Erastus Haven, A.M., M.D. 
Died at Evanston, III., February 3, 1888. 

He was born in Alalden, Mass., 
July 2y, 1849. His father. Rev. E. 
(3. Haven, D.D., LL.D., was one 
of the most prominent men in the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. He 
was for some years a professor in 
the University of Michigan ; later, 
editor of Zion's Herald, published 
in Boston, was a member of the 
state senate of Massachusetts, and 
a member of the state board of 
education. He was afterwards 
president of the University of 
Michigan, still later president of 
Northwestern University, at 
Evanston, 111., and at the time of his death, he was one of the 
Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a man of 
great refinement, high scholarship and unusual executive ability. 
Otis possessed many of his father's characteristics. He was pre- 
pared for college at the Boston Latin School and at the Ann 
Arbor Union School and entered the University of Michigan in 
September, 1866. He was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. 
Was one of the speakers at the Junior exhibition. 

After graduation, he went to Chicago, as corresponding clerk 
for A. H. Andrews & Co., for six months, and then went to 
McGregor, Iowa, as superintendent of public schools and re- 
mained there a little over two years. He then received the ap- 
pointment as superintendent of public schools at Evanston, 111., 
and held this position until 1881. He organized the public schools 
of Evanston, including the high school, upon a basis which made 
the schools known throughout the state as schools of the highest 
grade. He entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, and graduated 



114 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

in February, 1883, and at once commenced the practice of 
medicine at Evanston. He had won the confidence of all the peo- 
ple of Evanston, during the years of his residence there and soon 
acquired a fine practice. During these years, he was a member 
of the board of education and had much to do with the construc- 
tion of some of the best school buildings of the city. He was sick 
but a short time with typhoid fever and died February 3, 1888, at 
Evanston. 

He married Aliss Alice L. Sutherland, of Ann Arbor, August 
2, 1 87 1. She died August 14, 1898, leaving one daughter, Grace 
P>ances. who was born October 22, 1872. Grace makes her home 
with her father's most intimate friend, H. H. C. Miller, at Evans- 
ton, 111. She has been abroad twice, once for fourteen months 
with the family of Prof. H. S. Carhart, of the University of 
Michigan, and again for about four months, with the family of 
Mr. Miller. 



James Alfred Hay ward, C.E. 
Died off the Texas Coast, August J 2, 1880. 

Was born at Dublin, Cheshire Co., N. H., Sept. 12, 1849. 
His father, James Hayward, was a farmer and tanner and died 
in the early fifties. James Alfred's mother's maiden name was 
Amy Cushman Hoag, born in Tomhannock, Rensselaer Co., N. 
Y., died in Denver, Colorado, 1890. He received a common school 
education. Finished his preparation for entering the university at 
Antioch College. He entered the University of Michigan in the 
fall of 1866. Joined the Literary Adelphi. Immediately after 
graduation in '70, he engaged as assistant engineer with a rail- 
road survey party on the L. L. & G. R. R. in Kansas. Took 
charge of the transit and continued in that position until his eye- 
sight failed. The severe strain on his eyes, never very strong, was 
too great and he became nearly blind and was obliged to relinquish 
his task. He subsequently engaged in the machine shops of the 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 115 

L. L. & G. R. R. at Lawrence, Kan. He was soon promoted and 
at different times was offered desirable positions on the road. He 
finally went out as fireman of a locomotive, but was not satisfied 
and left in March, '71, and went to Ohio and embarked in the map 
making business without much success, being troubled with chills 
and fever. He then, Aug. i, ''jz, went to Minnesota and engaged 
as fireman on Winona & St. Peters R. R. and in two months time 
gained thirty pounds in weight. He then accepted a position as 
draftsman and deputy county surveyor in La Crosse, Wis. His 
work being finished he went to Milwaukee, Chicago and Rock 
Island in search for work. Finally joined Willits and W^aters, of 
'70, at that place in the map business, but it did not last long. In 
summer of 'y^)^ he received, through Ripley, of '70, an appoint- 
ment as draftsman on a government survey in Texas, and subse- 
quently, Ripley obtained for him an appointment as assistant LT. S. 
engineer, which position he retained until March, '75, a portion of 
the time having charge of a surveying party and part of the time 
being stationed at the mouth of the Mississippi river assisting on 
important w^orks there. On July 26, 'y^^^ previous to his going 
south, he married Miss Ida Upjohn, of Kalamazoo, formerly of 
Ann Arbor. The winters of '74 and '75, they resided in New 
Orleans, but in March, '75, they both returned to Michigan. For 
a few months he was idle, but in the fall of '75, he accepted an 
offer from Bird & Mickle, map publishers at Jackson, and re- 
mained with them until March, '76- On April 26, '76, his wife 
died in childbirth, wrecking his hopes completely. In June, '76, 
he returned to New Orleans and while there wrote several articles 
for the Engineering News and the Chicago Times, criticising the 
jettie works of Capt. Jas. B. Fads at South Pass, Mississippi river. 
In October, '76, he received an appointment as draftsman in U. S. 
Engineer's office, New Orleans, and in November, y6, an appoint- 
ment as assistant U. S. engineer in charge of a survey in Galveston 
r)ay, where he was still engaged in 'yy. In '80, he had charge of 



116 Class of 70, University of Michigan. 

dredging operations at the mouth of Sabine river and was 
stationed for a time at Sabine Pass. In the summer of '80. he pur- 
chased the twelve ton schooner, "Amedeo." and took a cruise in 
the Gulf, west of Galveston, having on board with him two other 
persons. On July 9, '80, they passed out over Pass Cavallo bar on 
their return to Galveston. On Wednesday morning, July 11th, 
when the vessel was about seventeen miles oiT the mouth of the 
Brazos river and about forty-two miles from Galveston, a terrible 
storm overtook them. About 9 o'clock it broke in all its fury. 
The craft was made as secure as possible and allowed to drift for 
about thirty hours. At times the vessel would run under until 
the water would reach the mainmast, and so great was the altitude 
of the waves that while resting in the trough of the sea the sails 
flapped for want of breeze to fill them, effectually placing manage- 
ment out of the question. The schooner was headed for shore 
when it was found impossible to longer keep her afloat, and when 
within about a mile of Padre beach, at 10 o'clock Thursday night, 
July 12, she was struck by a breaker and capsized in an instant. 
A moment after the only survivor, W. S. Lapham, who furnished 
this information, saw ]\Iajor Hayward on the opposite side of the 
boat struggling in the waves. He was never seen afterwards. 
The schooner washed ashore on Padre Island and his trunk, con- 
taining private papers and other effects, was taken from the wreck, 
but his body was never found. Flags were put at half mast on 
vessels in the harbor on receipt of intelligence of his death. His 
sister, Miss Emily A. Hayward, has for some time been teaching 
in Chicago. Her present address is No. 2626 N. 42d Ave., 
Chicago. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 117 




John Collins Rowland, M.S. 

Washington, D. C. 

Was born in ]\Iundy, near 
Flint, Genesee Co., Michigan, 
September 27. 1849. His father, 
Henry H. Howland, a hneal de- 
scendant of Howland of Plymouth 
Rock Colony and a pioneer in the 
Town of Mundy. was an extensive 
farmer and stock raiser. His 
mother, Esther P. \'an Tifflin, was 
of colonial descent on her mother's 
side, and Holland Dutch on her 
father's side. Her father, as a 
}outh. came to the United States 
near the close of the i8th century, 
upon the death of his father and 
the confiscation of his estates by the French in 1795. During" his 
vouth John C. attended district school during winters and farmed 
the balance of the year, with the exception of two years at the 
Flint High School just prior to entering the University of Michi- 
gan with the freshman class of 1869. His preparation for college 
was at home and the best district school in the county. He was 
with the class of '69 for two years, but preferring- to graduate with 
the class of '70 he became principal of the high school at Grand 
Blanc, remaining six months and managed his father's farm the 
balance of the year. In college he joined the Alpha Xu literary 
society and the Philozetian del^ating clulx Was elected vice-presi- 
dent of his class January 30, 1869. 

After the class day exercises in '70 he spent the summer taking 
the census of several towns under the U. S. ^Marshal, in his home 
county, and with the Marshal at Detroit. During the winter of 
'70-1 began the study of law and continued until appointed assist- 
ant clerk of the House of Representatives at Lansing in January, 



118 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

'71, where he served for two sessions. In the meantime continued 
the law, being- for about six months with the law class of 'j;^ at 
the University of Michigan. In the spring of 'j2 he entered the 
law ofifice of E. Y. Swift, at Detroit, as a salaried law clerk, and 
remained for over a year, in the meantime being admitted as an 
attorne}' in the supreme court, and other courts of the state upon 
examination; was appointed clerk of the supreme court of Michi- 
gan in April, 1873, and sensed as such under his former professor, 
Chief Justice Thos. ^I. Cooley, who then and ever afterwards was 
a most cherished friend and adviser. 

Upon the removal of the court to Lansing late in 1873 by an 
act of the Legislature, he opened a law office in Detroit, where he 
practiced till 1885. He had cases in various parts of the state 
and Canada. In 1875 he traveled through the Eastern states and 
Canada. In '76, he represented Detroit as one of the delegates to 
the Commercial convention at Atlanta, Georgia, after which he 
traveled through all the Southern states, except Texas. He visited 
the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876, also Cape Cod, 
Plymouth Rock — the home of his ancestors — P)OSton, Washington, 
New York, and other places. 

The summer of 1877 was spent upon the lakes and in the 
Great Northwest, partly on business and partly on pleasure. Sum- 
mers of '78 and *79 were spent at watering places, the seashore 
and pleasure resorts among the mountains, East and West. Mr. 
Howland has been active in politics as a Republican from '70 to the 
present ; attended nearly all the Republican state conventions as a 
delegate, as well as county conventions, and was frequently an 
ofificer in the conventions. He was on the stump as a speaker in 
every national and state election from 1874 to 1890: also was 
active as a speaker in 1896. 

On May 18, 1881. he married Miss Beatrice A. Tharpe, of 
Macon, Georgia, one of the most beautiful and charniing young 
ladies of the South, whose father was a lieutenant colonel in the 
Confederate army, and whose ancestry was of Revolutionary 
stock ; returned to Detroit after spending some time at Chatta- 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 119 

nooga and in the mountain resorts. Continued a general law 
practice until April, 1885, when, by order of his physician, he was 
obliged to remove his wife to save her life to a southern climate. 
Upon his wife's recovery he began the practice of law at Macon, 
Ga.. and continued before all the courts of the state until entering 
the Department of the Interior at Washington, D. C, in July, 
1890, as principal examiner of land claims and contests. He was 
employed in many very important cases in the superior and 
supreme coiu'ts of Georgia, and only lost one case in the latter 
court out of a score or more argued ; in fact his knowledge of the 
common law, learned under Judge Cooley, made it easy to analyze 
the code of Georgia and win, over the code lawyers without com- 
mon law training. 

In November, 1S86, his son was born. He is now nearly 16, 
a fine looking, athletic boy, good student and fond of outdoor life, 
and anxious to enter West Point, though his parents desire him 
to enter his father's Alma Mater. In 1889-90 Mr. Howland repre- 
sented Georgia as delegate to the American Shipping and In- 
dustrial League, taking an active part in its session. He resigned 
from the General Land Office in the summer of 1893 and entered 
upon the practice (jf law, largely before departments. He ap- 
peared in many cases before all the courts of the District of 
Columbia and in some in \'irginia ; was counsel in very many of 
the largest land cases l^efore the Land Department, involving from 
a half million dollars up, notably the Ft. Brooke, Florida, case 
which was won on the strength of his arguments in different cases 
arising during his practice in the department and against some of 
the most notable lawyers in the V. S. He was induced by the 
present Commissioner of the Land Office to re-enter the service in 
June, 1900, though the step is now regretted by him. It came 
about from having, out of sport, taken the civil service examina- 
tion in 1898, as assistant attorney for the Interior Department, 
and passing 92.50 out of 100, without a day's preparation, and the 
second on the list. It was done out of curiosity and to determine 



120 



Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



whether the hit^hest examination — class No. 2,000 to 3,000 — pos- 
sessed any charm. He extends a general and cordial invitation to 
all of '70 memhers to call upon him at the General Land Office. 



Frank Howard Howe, A.B., LL.B. 

Died at New York City, December 29, J 897. 

He was horn at Green Bay, 
\\'is., ]\Iay 10. 1850. His father 
was Hon. Timothy (His Howe, 
of honora])k' ancestry — an im- 
mediate descendant of John 
1 lowe, of Marlhorough and Sud- 
l)nry, Mass. He was born at 
Turner, jNlaine; became a lawyer; 
entered the ]\Iaine Legislature, l)Ut 
by reason of failure of health re- 
moved to Wisconsin ; became cir- 
cuit court judge in that state; was 
elected to the U. S. Senate in 
i860, where he was a prominent 
figure during and after the Civil 
War for three consecutive terms — 18 years. He became Post- 
master General under President Arthur in Decemlier, 1881, and 
died in March, 1883. Frank Howe's mother was Linda Ann 
Haines, also of honorable ancestry. One of her forbears in this 
countrv was Hon. Thomas Dudley, colonial governor of Massa- 
chusetts. She was also a native of JNlaine. iM-ank's early educa- 
tion was acquired at Green Bay, Wis., and at Ripon College, 
Ripon. Wis., from which place he went to the Cniversity of Michi- 
gan in the fall of 1867 and entered the class of '70. with which he 
was graduated. He then went to Washington, D. C, assisting 




DEPARTiMENT OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND AkTS. 121 

his father as dork to one of the senate coniniittccs of which 
Senator Howe was chairman, and afterwards, when his father be- 
came Postmaster General, he became chief clerk of the Post Ofifice 
Department. In the meantime he had taken a law course at 
Columbian College Law School, Washint^tnn, from which he was 
graduated in 1872. He was admitted to the bar, commenced the 
practice of law and subsequently held a responsible position 
in the Department of Justice. However, he disliked the 
practice of law and hnally removed to New York, where 
he occupied himself in literary work. He was a man of 
superior intellect and unusual attaimnents, being- an omnivor- 
ous reader and searcher of great libraries. ( )ne of his specialties 
was medieval French literature, and another was metaphysical 
speculations. Jlis first novel, "A College Widow," met with a 
ready sale and attracted a good deal of attention. He was also 
the author of "New Evadne," "Ocular Delusion,"' besides doing a 
great deal of newspaper work. 

He was always one of the most welcome presences in social 
circles and became, in middle life, of distinguished appearance. 

At college he was a member of the Psi Cpilson fraternity and 
the Literary Adelphi society. He was married in 1879 to Miss 
Ella Ray, of Washington. D. C, ami had one son Frank Ray, 
born in 1884. Mr. Howe died suddenly December 29, 1897, of a 
seizure pronounced by the physician to be heart failure, at the 
age of 47. He leaves one sister, Mrs. Mary Howe Totten, wife 
of Major Totten, of Washington, D. C. 



122 



Class of '70, University of Michigan. 




Washington Hyde, Ph.B., LL.B. 

Warren, Ohio. 

He says: "What I have writ- 
ten here will be of little interest I 
fear. One's own life is of supreme 
importance to himself, but, of 
necessity, must be of limited in- 
terest to others. I was the eldest 
of my father's family, and born 
^Nlay 7, 1847. (3n my father's 
side, of Xew York and Connecti- 
cut ancestry ; on my mother's, 
I'ennsylvania Dutch. From my 
father I inherited a good constitu- 
tion : from my mother, mental 
traits. My father was a farmer, 
and early met with financial ill 
luck, and I was compelled to struggle hard for my education. At 
14 I commenced attending Western Reserve Seminary in my 
native town. For three years I rang the bell for my tuition, 
working at home in vacations. These were happy days. At 17 
I taught my first district school. By teaching wdnters and going to 
the seminary the spring and fall terms, I was graduated in 1867. 
I do not know how it was, but from my earliest recollection I 
had a love for books and a desire for knowledge. Western Re- 
serve Seminary, in those days, was quite a large school, and had 
a wide influence. Senator Stewart, of Nevada, was once a stu- 
dent there. Among the instructors were many able men and 
women ; of the latter, was Miss Isabella Thobum, who went to 
India soon after leaving the seminary. Aly studies at the semin- 
ary, and the influence of my instructors there, had much to do 
with forming my mind and character. Looking back to those 
days, and judging myself as best I can, I seem to be now very 
much as I was then, onlv in a larger degree. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 123 



In the fall of 1867 I went to the University of Michigan, in- 
tending- to take optional stndies for a year, as it did not seem 
possible to go longer. But I could not withstand my desire to 
enter the class of "70 after I had been there a short time. I was 
up in mathematics, but short in the languages. The trouble was, 
that my studies in the seminary had not been arranged to prepare 
me properly to enter the imiversity. I never before or since, 
worked so hard as I did that year. I had no time for social 
pleasure, and did not get acquainted with many of my class. 

There was not a happier fellow in the university in the spring 
of '68 than I was, when I was allowed to be enrolled with the class 
of '70. with the privilege of working up some sophomore Latin in 
mv junior year. 

What a tine looking class it was ! What would I not give to 
live over just one of those days again. Just to meet together as 
we used to do. To hear one lecture from Prof. Cocker ; one from 

Prof. Winchell and one •— 

If we only knew how to judge rightly, how would we not clasp 
many things, as with hooks of steel, to our very souls, that we too 
often allow to pass lightly. 

Graduation day came, we held our last class meeting, and 
separated. The summer of '70 I spent happily in the law library. 
Judge Cooley having given me charge of it. Entered the law class 
in the fall. Taught a three months school at Flushing, in the 
winter, to help out the financial end. Came back for spring 
lectures ; read law in Cleveland summer of 1871 ; went to the uni- 
versity in fall and graduated with the law class of '72. On July 
5, 1872, William R. Day, of '70, and I were admitted to the bar 
of this state, together, at Ashland. That was 30 years ago; it 
seems l)ut yesterday. What of tliose 30 years? Much — little. 
They have all been busy years. I have followed my profession 
continuously. From 1880 to 1885 I was prosecuting attorney; 
otherwise have not held office. They have not brought me wealth, 
but a modest competence. I have six children living. Miss Jessie, 
the oldest, was graduated at Obcrlin in the class of 1901. and was 



124 Class of 'yo, University of Michigan. 



assistant German teacher in the public schools of Vounostown last 
year. ]My oldest boys, (leorge and Charles, are fast approaching" 
manhood. Aly three youngest. Elhvard. Lillian and Clarence, till 
the house and hearts of their father and mother with happiness. 

My law })ractice has been general, as it is impossible to 
specialize in a town the size of Warren. I do not know in what 
way more than another, if any, 1 am most efficient as a lawyer, un- 
less it be as a court law\-er, as we say in Ohio : that is. in the trial of 
cases to a court instead of a jury. The most important case I 
ever had is reported in \ol. 47. page 556 of the Ohio State Re- 
ports. The most disastrous law suit I ever had, to my clients, was 
over a mother turkey and her brood. I'.oth plaintiff and tlefeud- 
ant claimed the turkeys. They were neighbors and members of 
the same church. The plaintiff replevined the turkeys from the 
defendant and the latter came to me to take his case. This was 
25 years ago. The first jury disagreed ; the secontl gave a verdict 
for the plaintiff, .\gainst my advice my client appealed, and on 
the final trial lost his case. A church trial followed and the com- 
munity where this occurred has not gotten fully over the turkey 
law suit yet. 

Speaking of the present. F am more fully employed than ever 
before in my life. Am director and attorney for several business 
corporations: vice-president of the Second National IJank; presi- 
dent of The Warren and Xiles Telephone Co.. etc. 

I hope to live to work a good man\- years yet. Am in the 
prime and vigor of my life. I owe much to my home life, which 
is all my heart can wish. 

I have traveled quite extensively in our own country ; but have 
never been abroad. My famil}- antl myself go fre(|ucntly to 
Chautau<iua. It is one of the greatest institutions in om- countrw 
I enjo}- lite and am reasonably prosperous. Most of my interests 
are centered here. 

In giving this brief transcript of myself, 1 want to make it as 
true to the original as 1 can. ]\Iy love for literary pursuits re- 
mains with me. I regret that 1 have to turn aside so nuich from 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 125 



thcni to keep the wheels going- around that 1)ring my daily bread. 
1 hope to spend my latter days in the quiet of my library and in 
the study of science and philosophy. 

In religion I am, as when in the university, a Unitarian. While 
many or most of the old landmarks that were set for the guidance 
of my youth, by my good parents, grandparents and teachers, 
have ])assed out of my life, my faith in the eternal righteousness 
of the First Great Cause of All rises within me with sublimer 
strength than ever before. 

May He that watcheth the sparrow when it falls, keep each of 
us, and bring us all to everlasting life." 

In college, Mr. Hyde was one of the speakers at the first 
Sophomore exhibition, a speaker at the Junior exhibition, and also 
one of the speakers at Commencement exercises. He was a mem- 
ber of the Alpha Nu and also of the Philozetian debating club. 



Francis Wayland Jones, A.M., LL.B. 
Los Angeles, Cal. 




Born at Hamburg, Washtenaw 
Co., Michigan, August 2t„ 1849, 
his father being the Rev. Samuel 
Jones, a Baptist minister. At the 
age of two, his parents removed to 
Kalamazoo, Mich., where his early 
youth was spent. Very early in 
life he began an educational train- 
ing by reason of his father's con- 
nection with the college located at 
that place. At the age of six, he, 
with his father's family, removed 
to Wisconsin, residing in various 
places, as was the call of his father 
in his ministerial work. In 1863 
he began the work of preparation for college in earnest, at Way- 
land Seminary, Beaver Dam, Wis. Here he pursued his studies 



126 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

till the spring- of 1866, when the family removed to Ann Arbor. 
Mr. Jones entered the University of ]^lichig-an with the class of 
'70, in September, 1866, and was gradnated with the class. He 
was one of the speakers at the first Sophomore exhibition. He 
took a post graduate course. 

In 1871 he was appointed instructor in mathematics at Way- 
land Seminary, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and in 1872, became 
principal of the school at Climax. ^Michigan. In 1873, he went to 
M^ashington. D. C, receiving an appointment in the Treasury De- 
partment, with the first honors in civil service examination undef 
the Grant administration, standing fifth among some 550 under 
examination. In Washington he resumed his law studies in the 
National University Law School, being graduated in the spring 
of '74. Was admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia, and 
began practice in Chicago. Here he worked for three years with 
Messrs. Palmer and Colt, in charge of the office work. In 1877, 
he entered into partnership with Floyd R. Wilson, '71, under the 
firm name of Wilson & Jones, whose practice opened a bright 
future, but in 1879. Mr. Jones had a severe attack of bronchitis, 
with complications, followed by a long illness. Under medical 
advice he went to the sea coast in \'irginia and spent the summer 
in camp life and quietly. He entered again the government em- 
ploy in November, '80, in the office of the Secretary of the Treas- 
urv, largely employed on special detail work of the civil service 
board, in the congressional library and on special duty for the 
Secretary. In 1885, failing health made a change of climate ad- 
visable and he went to South Dakota, still retaining his position 
with some remuneration. Returned to Washington in the spring. 
In the fall he was again granted leave of absence, on full pay for 
seven months. He again returned for the purpose of making a 
revision of the rules and regulations of the revenue marine service, 
in conformity to the acts of congress and the orders and rules of 
the department. Subsequently resigning his position, he devoted 
himself to his farming interests in Dakota and to the recovery of 
his health. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 127 

In October, "89, deeming- himself restored to health, and Da- 
kota droughts making farming- anything but pleasant or profit- 
able, he returned to Washington and assisted in the preparation 
of the tenth census, having a force of nearly 500 clerks under his 
charge. In 1893. ^^^ resigned and accepted a position with the 
Colorado River Irrigation Company, holding this position for a 
year, during which time he secured important legislation from 
congress. In October, '94, he was made Pacific coast representa- 
tive of the company, which was the pioneer and laid the founda- 
tion for a great future in the vast arid district known as the 
Colorado Desert, and made possible such enterprises as Imperial, 
of which all the world knows. Soon after arriving in California, 
Mr. Jones, as all live men do, l^ecame interested in mining, and in 
'96 devoted himself exclusively to his mining interests, not as a 
speculator in the city, but as an active worker in the fields, pro- 
moting by his energy and skill in that direction enterprises that 
bid fair to yield a rich harvest in the no distant future. In his 
busy California life, he has always found time to devote to educa- 
tional and church work. In the church he has served several years 
as chairman of the board of trustees. From '98 to '01 was a 
director of the Southern California Baptist Convention, secretary 
of the board and member and secretary of the executive committee. 
Has been secretary of most of the companies with which he has 
been identified, in fact, has been almost a standing secretary. 

Air. Jones has never attended a reunion of his class, his lines 
of life having been cast, for the most part, remote from his Alma 
Mater. However, he has been in close touch with many of his 
classmates and of the alumni of the university, and for two years, 
in Chicago, was secretary of the association of the alumni. 

November 19, 1878, he married Miss Ella A. Moulton, of 
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Their children are Elizabeth M., age 
18; Ethel A., age 12; Marie M., age 5; Mella Syche died March 
18, 1881, age 13 months 13 days. Mr. Jones' present address is 
535 Miami Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. 



128 



Class of '70, University of Michigan. 




Rev. Eugene Ketchum, B,S. 

Epworth, Iowa. 

Was born at Pulaski, Han- 
cock Co., Illinois, April 13, 1840. 
His father's name was Edmund 
R. Ketchum, who was the son of 
Epimetus Ketchum, who was the 
son of Zophar Ketchum, who was 
the son of * * * * Edward 
Ketchum. of Ipwich, Mass., 1635. 
Eugene's mother died when he 
was seven years old. At fifteen he 
began to lose his sight from the 
effects of cataract. It gradually 
failed so that at seventeen he was 
unable to read ordinary print, and 
for seveu years he was blind ; but 
those years were not entirely lost. In September, '59, he entered 
the Iowa college for the blind, then located at Iowa City. By 
June. '64, he had completed the course of study prescribed for 
that institution, and had made commendable progress in several 
studies not prescribed. He was graduated and received his 
diploma June 24, "64. On July 6th following. Dr. J. B. Walker, 
of Chicago, performed a surgical operation on his eyes which re- 
sulted in the complete restoration of his sight. At 24 years of age 
he did not own a dollar in the world and was $240 in debt, but 
had recovered that which was worth more to him than wealth. 
He could see again. And with eyesight restored, nothing" seemed 
impossible to him. He resolved to go through college by his own 
unaided elTorts, and he succeeded. At the end of one year he had 
paid $100 of his debt, and had $112 with which to enter college. 
He entered Northwestern University as sophomore in the fall of 
'65. By close economy and earnings fr^m extra labor, he got 
through the tirst year. The next summer vacation he spent in 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 129 

work, but began tbe second year in college with less money than 
the }ear before. The outlook was discouraging- to him, and he 
was at a loss to know what to do next. At this critical time he 
unexpectedly received an offer of $i,ooo to take charge of the 
Union School at Negaunee, Upper Michigan, for one year. He 
accepted and at the end of the year was offered $1,200 to stay 
another year. He concluded to do so, and the next fall he entered 
the University of Michigan as junior, and was graduated with the 
class of '70. While in the university he was a member of the 
Literary Adelphi, the Students' Lecture Association, and the Stu- 
dents' Christian Association. Since graduation he has belonged 
to the A. O. U. W., Dubuque Building & Loan Association and 
the Preachers' Mutual Aid Society of the Upper Iowa Con- 
ference. 

The day after graduation he engaged as principal of the public 
schools at Cassopolis, Cass Co., Michigan, at $1,100. The school 
board told him the school was a hard one to manage, but that they 
wanted him to manage it, and he did. Judge Bennett, president of 
the board, told Mr. Ketchum that if any of his children disobeyed 
to "take a stick and warm 'em." Ketchum says: 'T, innocent 
bird of Paradise, was unsophisticated enough to believe that Judge 
Bennett meant just what he said." Accordingly, when one of 
Judge Bennett's sons and six other boys ran away from school, 
Mr. Ketchum took a stick and warmed the whole seven. The 
fathers, including Judge Bennett, were wrathy. They ordered the 
director to call a meeting of the board. He did so. The board 
sustained the teacher and approved the warming. Judge Bennett 
surrendered, but another father was implacable. A few days later 
Mr. Ketchum was the victim of a legal prosecution, but in this he 
gained as great a victory over the father as he had previously 
gained over the son, for the jury decided in his favor, and he com- 
pleted the year, master of the situation. Thus was the reputation, 
the dignity and the honor of '70 preserved. During the summer 
vacation of '71, he visited Iowa, and while there he was engaged 
as principal of the public schools at Vinton, Iowa, with salary the 



130 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

same as at Cassopolis. But before entering- upon his school duties 
he returned to jMichigan and on the i6th (if August, at Ida, ^Nlon- 
roe County, he married Aliss Emma E. Jones, sister of Clark 
Jones, of the class of ''J2, University of jNIichigan. Their daughter, 
Alary Emma, was liorn June 7th, 1873, ^"'^^ '^'^'^^^ Sept. 2d, same 
year. A'esta May was born Sept. 5, 1876: she is a dressmaker and 
musician. She received her musical education principally in Du- 
buque, la. ; her instrumental instruction at the Dubuque Academy 
of Music ; her vocal training imder Professor Calvin Bushy and 
Professor W. H. Pontius, of Dubuque, bethel Jane was born July 
13th, 1S78; she was educated at Upper Iowa University. She was 
married at Geneva, Iowa, to Mr. Burtella X. Hendricks. Sept. 23d, 
1896. Their home is in Riceville, Iowa. Her husband was 
graduated from the Iowa State University in both the literary and 
law departments, and he already has quite an extensive law prac- 
tice. Franklin R. Avas born July 19th, 1880. He completed the 
course in the Geneva High School in "96 and took the studies of 
the senior year in Epworth Seminary, 1899. The past two years 
he has been teaching school in Howard County with marked suc- 
cess. Alice Estella, born July 8th, 1882, was graduated from 
Epworth Seminary in class of 1900. She has taught school one 
year, giving excellent satisfaction, and is now very popular as a 
teacher. Edith Luana, born Nov. 12th. 1884, entered the senior 
class at the seminarv the fall of 1901 and proposes in scholarship 
to outstrip all the rest, while Jennie Belle, two years younger, is 
in hot pursuit at the head of the juniors. Last, but not least, is 
Elora Anna, born at Central City, Iowa, June 5th, 1889. She 
entered the principal's room in the ]niblic school in the fall of 
1901. 

Mr. Ketchum taught in Mnton two years. He had eight as- 
sistant teachers and 650 scholars to look after, Init enjoyed his 
work. In ^"ji he was elected superintendent of the A'inton ]Metho- 
dist Sunday school of about 300 members. In the fall of ^'j}, he 
entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and com- 
menced his work at Big Grove, Benton Co., Iowa. During this 



Department of Liteirature, Science, and Arts. 131 



first vear of his ministry 39 persons of hischarije united with the 
church. In the faU of "74 he was received on trial into the Upper 
Iowa Conference, and assigned to INIanchester circuit, in Delaware 
Co., preaching- at Masonville, Sand Creek, Silver Creek and 
Portable. In two years" time the memliership had increased by 
nearly one-half. In the fall of '76, having passed examination in 
the conference course of study each year, he w^as ordained deacon, 
and elected to full membership in the conference. Was appointed 
to Earlville charge, which he served with increasing membership 
for three years. '"J"], '78 and '79, preaching three times every Sun- 
day. Then he was assigned to the Strawberry Point charge, Clay- 
ton Co., where he remained one year. He had a severe attack of 
malarial fever, resulting in a seven weeks" illness in the summer 
of "80, and at conference he requested to be moved, and was sent 
to Luana, in the northern part of said county, where he labored 
three years, taking an active part in the campaign for the pro- 
hibitory amendment to the state constitution. In the fall of '83, 
he was appointed to Floyd charge, in Floyd County, where he 
preached for two years, opposing with great effect the sale of in- 
toxicating licjuors in that county. In the fall of "85 he was sent 
to Solon. Johnson Co., where whiskey appeared to be king, in 
defiance of law^ Mr. Ketchum opposed it and its patrons with 
all his might in the pulpit, press and on the platform, and by legal 
measures in court. He aroused great indignation on the part of 
the saloon men. One night his barn, with his horse, was burned, 
and the parsonage and the church came near sharing a similar 
fate. But a reaction set in and in less than three months the 
saloons and saloonkeepers were permanently enjoined. In October, 
'87, Ketchum moved to Stanwood charge. Cedar Co., where he 
served one year successfully and then went to Central City charge, 
where he continued preaching for two years, giving great satis- 
faction. His next charge was Mitchell and St. Ansgar, where, at 
the end of a three years' pastorate, the records showed an in- 
crease of 80 per cent, in membership. It was during this pastorate 
that he began to be affected with paralysis agitans, then but a 



132 Class of 70, University of Michigan. 

slight tremor in the left hand. He called his physician's attention 
to it and was told, "It is nothing' but a little nervous affection, the 
result of overwork. You don't need any medicine. All you need 
is rest. Give it a little time." With this assurance he gave it but 
little thought for a year or two. Then he noticed that rest had not 
stopped the tremljling, nor time diminished, but rather increased 
it. Yet, as he suffered no pain, nor special inconvenience, he con- 
tinued in the active work of the ministry. His next three charges, 
namely, Riceville, Haw^keye and Geneva, he served but one year 
each. In the fall of '96 he was sent to Elwood, in Clinton County. 
That was his last charge. During the winter of "96 and '97 he 
spent five days of each week at the Waterloo Electric Cure. The 
treatment stayed the progress of disease, but did not cure it. At 
the conference of '97 he was returned to Elwood for another year. 
This was one of the best year's of his ministry. All the temporal 
affairs of the local churches were kept in good shape ; the collec- 
tions for the connectional enterprises of the chiu-ch, such as mis- 
sions, church extension and all the other benevolent causes, were 
far in excess of the amount generally raised on that charge. But 
best of all a gracious revival visited the charge during the winter. 
At the close of the extra meetings held thirty-two persons came 
forward and united with the church. Notwithstanding the good 
results of this year's pastorate, JMr. Ketchum's nervous system 
had become so shattered that he felt himself unable to attend to the 
duties of a pastor any longer. Accordingly, in October, 1898, the 
annual conference, at his own recpiest, granted him a superannuate 
relation. He at once removed his family to Epworth, where they 
still live, greatly enjoying the educational and religious privileges 
aff'orded bv that communitv. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 133 




Charles J. Kintner, C.E. 
New York City. 

Was born in Boone Township 
in Harrison Co., Indiana, April 
19. 1848. His father, Jacob 
Laml) Kintner, born near Harris- 
burg, Penn., was of German an- 
cestry and by occupation a farmer 
and horticuhuraHst. He died July 
1st, 1870. His mother, Elizabeth 
Graham Kintner, was from New 
Alljany, Floyd Co.. Indiana, of 
Irish and Scotch ancestry. She 
died in 1890. Charles J. Kintner 
spent his boyhood in rural life, but 
as he increased in years the con- 
viction grew upon him that the 
city was to be his future home and that a professional calling 
would be preferable to him than that of a farmer. Accordingly, at 
the age of 17, he was industriously pursuing a preparatory course 
at New Albany, Ind., under the tutelage of Prof. O. Tousley, with 
a view to entering the University of Michigan, which he did with 
the class of '70. In college he was a member of the Alpha Nu 
literary society and one or two minor debating clubs. He was one 
of the speakers at the second Sophomore exhibition. After 
graduation he entered the observatory at Ann Arbor, as Prof. 
James C. Watson's assistant, and held this position from '70 until 
''J'], during which time he was elected, once, as city recorder of 
Ann Arbor ; was defeated, once, for the position of county super- 
intendent of schools by a small majority. In the spring of '']'], 
he was appointed assistant astronomer in the U. S. Engineer 
Corps under Lieut. Wheeler, with bases of operation at Washing- 
ton, D. C. and Ogden, L^tah. He spent two years in this position, 
during which time he was engaged in astronomical and engineer- 



134 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

ing work throiighont the Rocky Mountains and reducing his ob- 
servations and those of others at Washington. In '79, he entered 
the patent office as one of the assistant examiners and passed through 
the successive grades of the examining bureau until '82, when he 
was appointed chief clerk of the patent office under commissioner 
of patents, Marble. In "83, he was promoted to the position of 
principal examiner in charge of the class of electricity and was 
made secretary of the civil service board of the patent office. These 
positions he held until the spring of '87. when he resigned to enter 
upon the practice of patent law and electrical engineering wdth 
offices at Philadelphia and Xew York. He lived in Philadelphia 
one year, from '87 to '88, then went to Xew York where he is now 
located with offices at 45 Broadway, practicing as a patent lawyer 
and patent expert. Has been successful in his profession and is 
well known as one of the earliest electrical engineers in the es- 
tablishment of that kind of business. He is a member of the New 
York Athletic Club in \\ hich organization, ever since his first con- 
nection with it, he has taken an active part in all athletic matters. 
Was a member of the board of governors of that organization for 
two years and the position was tendered to him again, but busi- 
ness matters prevented his acceptance. He has done considerable 
in athletic sports in the w^'ay of rowing and swimming and had the 
honor of l^eing captain of the team which won the world's 
championship at water polo in the season of 1895. He says he is 
trying to grow- old gracefully, but is determined to remain young 
as long as possible and his athletic sports have done much to keep 
him vigorous and healthy. He is now endeavoring to bring be- 
fore the public a very important invention in the nature of a safety 
system of electric railways, which is intended to prevent accidents 
from collisions under all conditions of usage. He joined the Ma- 
sonic fraternity about 1876 and has taken all the degrees up to 
and including those of Knights Templar. 

Mr. Kintner was married to Miss \ iola Bloomer Pack, of Ann 
Arbor, May ist, 1871. No children. They reside at No. 36 East 
29th St., New York City. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 135 




Owen Edgar LeFevre^ Ph.B. 
Denver, Colorado. 

He was born on the 6th day of 
August, 1848. in a viUage near 
Dayton, Ohio. His father was a 
plivsician of much skill and learn- 
ing. His grandfather was a great 
great grandson of Isaac Le Fevre, 
a French Huguenot, who fled 
from France and reached New 
York State in 1707 in the tran- 
sport Globe with Lord Lovelace. 
He, Isaac, became the owner of 
large landed estates both in New 
York and Pennsylvania, having 
always purchased for value from 
the Indians, whose friendship he 
constantly had. This family has produced men loyal to them- 
selves, their church and the nation. Daniel, in the Revolution ; 
the grandfather in the War of 18 12, and the subject of this sketch 
in the Civil War, he having enlisted in the 154th O. A'. I. in May, 
1864, before he was sixteen years of age. 

He enjoyed the advantages of a district country school, a 
graded school in Dayton, and a preparatory school at Yellow 
Springs. Ohio, before enlisting. After the expiration of his term 
of service he prepared for college and passed his freshman and 
sophomore years in Antioch College, Ohio, but entered in the 
autumn of 1868 the University of Michigan in his junior year with 
the class of '70. being graduated therefrom as a Ph.B. with that 
class. While in the university he was a member of the Alpha 
Delta Phi society. In the fall of that year he began teaching 
school and the study of the law, quitting the former after nine 
months service, but continuing his chosen profession until ad- 
mitted by the Supreme Court of Ohio to the practice in June, 1872. 



136 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

He married Eva J. Freneh on the nioht of her t^raduation at 
the Ohio W'eslxaii I'niversity at Delaware, Ohio, June 28, 1871. 
He entered the employment of Houk & McMahon, lawyers, in 
Dayton. This firm was the leading one in central Ohio and their 
extensive husiness afforded an ample field for ]\Ir. Le Fevre. He, 
however, remained with them only one year when he and his wife 
left the East for the then small city of Denver, Colorado, a place 
of some ten thousand inhabitants. Ele there in time was associated 
in the law with the Hon. Bela M. Hughes, then the foremost 
lawyer in all the West. Next with E. P. Jacobson, Esq., a man 
of much ability, and his third associate was an ex-judge of the 
Supreme Court of Colorado, Hon. Anibert W. Stone. These co- 
partnerships were his last. His specialty having become mining 
and banking, and in these two branches of the law and the busi- 
ness incident thereto he gained an envial^le reputation and a hand- 
some competency. In time he was twice mayor of Highland, a 
part of Denver, then attorney, for three terms, of Arapahoe 
County, of which Denver is the county seat; then elected judge of 
the county court, and before his term as such judge expired he was 
elected as one of the District judges, from which postion 
he retired in January, 1901. Not expecting to resume the practice 
of the law he gave himself over to travel and general reading; 
his especial taste leading to the study of modern art and the collec- 
tion of modern iM-ench ])aintings. Judge Leb'evre and family have 
traveled mncli in this country and have been several times to 
Europe. 

To him was liorn in January, 1884, Eva Frederica, educated at 
Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. It may be truthfully said that 
the entire life of classmate LeFevre has been pleasant in the ex- 
treme. Now blessed with a charming wife and daughter, in a 
home filled with all the comforts of life, and in the midst of a 
strong manhood, may the remainder of his days be foretold as 
days of rest and entire enjoyment. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 137 

Vincent Smith LovcII, A.M. 

Died at Scranton, Pa.^ December 7, 1892. 

He was born at IClgin, Illinois, then a town on the frontier, 
May 2, 1845. H^s father, Vincent S. Lovell, was a merchant at 
that place. Plis mother, Lucy S. Lovell, was a person of culture 
and took great delight in her children and in their progress in 
education. She was an accomplished teacher and by her instruc- 
tion of her sons at home laid the foundation of their future emi- 
nence. In addition to acciuiring a common school education in his 
youth Vincent learned the printer's trade in Chicago. This be- 
came of advantage to him in his future editorial work. He was 
prepared for college at Elgm Academy and at Ann Arbor. He 
entered the LTniversity of Michigan in September, 1866. His class- 
mates at once recognized in him a kind, genial, lovable companion, 
and at their first meeting to organize their class, elected him its 
first president. During his four years" course he was regarded by 
his classmates as one of the foremost men in college. He was 
elected as one of the editors of the Oracle and also as one of the 
editors of the Uiirc'crsify Chronicle; was appointed as one of the 
speakers at the second Sophomore exhibition, and also one of the 
speakers at the Jvmior exhilMtion. He was elected president for 
one term of the Alpha Nu literary society. He was a member of 
the University Glee Clu1). h' olio wing graduation in 1870, Mr. 
Lovell accepted the position of night editor on the Albany Argus. 
This work was very trying to his health. At the end of a year he 
was promoted to managing editor of the same paper, but on ac- 
count of failing health he was able to fill this position only for one 
year. He then resigned and went to his home in Elgin to re- 
cuj^erate. After a year's rest he, in company with his classmate, 
Edwin I'leming, traveled through England. Scotland, Belgium, 
Germany, h'rance, Italy and Austria. Returning home in the fall 
of 1874, he became associate editor of the Chicago Evening Post, 
in which he was a stockholder. He continued in this position for 
a couple of years and then made a second trip to Europe, and was 



138 Class of '70, University of AIichigan. 



married at Hoinl)uro-, near the Rhine, in Germany, to EHza 
Hadwen, an EngHsh lady, whose acquaintance he had formed 
three years before in Rome. His last trip abroad was made in 
1880 in company with his wife. Returning they made their per- 
manent home at Elgin, where Mr. Lovell was engaged in business 
during the balance of his life. He was highly esteemed bv all 
who knew him. He was elected and served as mavor of Elgin, 
but could not be pursuaded to accept any other pulilic office, except 
to serve as a luember of the public library board. He was energetic 
and faithful in his work ; was a smooth and graceful writer, pos- 
sessed of fine culture and rare good judgment. He was a delight- 
ful companion, a priceless friend, true as steel and generous to a 
fault. The message bearing information of his death carried sor- 
row to his surviving friends and particularly to all of his old class- 
mates at the University of Michigan. The city council at Elgin 
met and passed the following resolutions : 

"\Miereas, An all-wise Providence has removed from our midst 
our highly esteemed fellow citizen, the Hon. Vincent S. Lovell, and 

Whereas. We recognize in his public life as mavor of our citv, 
as a member of the library board, and in other places of public 
trust, a man of high personal character and of strict business in- 
tegrity, and one who in private life was noted for his tuivarying 
affability, quiet disposition and purity of heart. 

Therefore, be it resolved that we extend to the family of the 
deceased our sincere and heartfelt sympathy in their great bereave- 
ment, and assure them that this resolution but bespeaks the senti- 
ment of our entire people. 

Be it further resolved, that as a token of respect to the memory 
of the deceased we attend his fimeral in a body, and that a copy 
of these resolutions, attested b}' the city clerk, be furnished the 
family of the deceased, also 

Resolved, as a further mark of our respect, that this council do 
now adjourn." 

The funeral services took place at the Eirst Congregational 
Church. Elgin. December 10. 1892. The edifice was filled to its 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 139 

utmost capacity with friends who assenililed in sorrow to pay their 
last respect to him whom they had so favorably known during 
life. His widow resides at Elgin. His brother, Hon. E. C. Lovell, 
class of "68. died January 6, 1902. 



John Scott Maltman, B.S., LL.B. 

Los Angeles, Cal. 

Was born in Scotland in the 
village of Denny, near the Field 
of Hrannockburn, and left an or- 
phan at the age of eight years ; 
and being without a friend in the 
world, had at that age to shift for 
himself. We will give his own 
words. "I began by earning 62^ 
cents per week in the Busby print 
works, and later $1.25 per week, 
bound to a sort of child-slavery in 
a manufacturing establishment in 
(dasgow. My great delight when 
a boy was to watch, in leisure mo- 
ments, the big ships on the River 
Clyde, loading and unloading ' their cargoes, and to view the 
strange flags and dark skinned sailors, and I always longed to 
go with them when they sailed away that I might escape from 
surroundings against which I continually rebelled. A penny story 
of Sinbad the Sailor, with pictures, was the first book read, fol- 
lowed by the sea story Ben Brace and Robinson Crusoe and the 
like, recounting adventures and telling of strange seas and lands, 
plants, wild beasts and wild men, thus exciting the imagination 
and ending finally in my shipping on the good ship Inkerman as 
a sailor boy. The ship's company attired me in a sailor hat, sur- 
rounded with plenty ribbon ; a l)lue shirt with the ship's name in 




140 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



large white letters across the breast ; low shoes ami white pants 
held up by a belt, exposing a large knife, such as sailors carry. 
All this filled me with delight and vanity. When at length the 
cargo was stowed away and the tide and wind favored our de- 
parture, the ca])tain shouted, "All — hands — up anchor — a-hov" 
and followed this with other orders to loose sails and square the 
yards ; meanwhile, the sailors, heaving up anchor, joined in the 
hearty chorus, 

"Fare thee well, old Glasgow town — yo — ho — fare thee well," 
and when the big ship swung around, as the sails filled by the 
breeze and she began to move through the water, I experienced 
one of the happy moments of my life, for we were sailing awav 
from the past, with all the bright, new world liefore me. 

At first, all orders were unintelligible. 1 simply took a baud 
with the crew in everything, whether on deck or aloft, though it 
was apalling, indeed, when ordered aloft in the first heavv storm 
where I did nothing on climbing to the fore-top but hold on for 
dear life, thus greatly anuising the old sailors. But my innate love 
of climbing soon made the ship's tackle and every spar, stay-brace 
and halyard familiar and ere long I was perfectly at home, day or 
night, on the highest yards, loosing gasgets or reefing sails, duties' 
at once taught and required of boys at sea. But more especially 
in a storm when the ship labored heavily, it was the task of the 
boys (and there were five of us) to mount to the highest points. 
The top gallant and n\\al yards were our special care. We could 
hold on like cats, and were in less danger there than the men. That 
night when the shij) caught fire, and again when her timliers 
opened in a gale, with all hands at the pumps, night and day, to 
keep her from going to the bottom, and when the ship's officers 
displayed fire arms in quelling a threatened mutiny, we had plenty 
adventure, not without hardships and fear. The captain and sec- 
ond mate were most tyrannical and cruel ; the latter would be- 
labor the men and sometimes fell one to the deck with a belaying 
pin. We boys were kicked by the cai)tain and whipped with a 
rope l)y the mate, and were sent aloft l)y the Imur with a bucket 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 14-1 

of grease to "swash" the masts, all for some trifling offense; hut 
aside from such trials and hardships, common enough with sailors, 
\ve spent some happy days on shiphoard. (Jn first going to sea, I 
cared nothing ahout the destination of the ship. Any foreign 
land would do; all were alike desirahle tr> me. It was hy mere 
chance, therefore, or fate, we came to North America, where, at 
Quebec several of the crew, including four boys, decided to desert 
the ship. One of the latter and myself at midnight escaped to the 
shore on a raft. We had sworn each to the other, never to suffer 
capture, and to use our knives in defense. It was, therefore, the 
flashing of the knives in the darkness and our refusal to talk that 
intimidated the watch, wdio would have made an immediate arrest. 
While he stepped back to whistle for help, we dashed away to- 
ward the river and hid in a lumber pile until the noise of skurry- 
ing feet had died away. We then made off and hid in the hills and 
woods several days until our shij) sailed away, living principally 
on wild berries. Later, we tried in vain to find another ship and 
return to sea, but failing in this, and not caring much whither w'e 
went, struck owt west through the French settlements, where the 
people, seeing we had come from a ship, treated us most kindly. I 
had only one penny on landing, and had, beside our big knives, a 
roll of stout string to bind the rafts we might make in crossing 
rivers. We traveled westerly seven hundred miles. Our ad- 
ventures in this would fill a book. At length halting on the ex- 
treme northern frontier of western Canada, near the Georgian 
Bay, I found a brother who had emigrated from Scotland at an 
earlier date. Here we learned the A, B, C of backwoods life, fell- 
ing trees, splitting rails, building log huts, fashioning rude utensils 
with saw and axe ; planting our little crop between the stumps and 
to our simple fare occasionally adding the maple sugar and syrup 
we made and the game we trapped, and the speckled trout from 
the brook caught with bent pin and worm, or with a trap. Our 
only books were the Bible and Dick's Philosophy on Mechanics. 
These my brother sometimes read aloud at night, while I sat at 
his side furnishing light by holding up splinters of pitch-pine, con- 



142 Cr.ASS OF '70, University of Alien r;ax. 

suminj;- one piece after another, until our cabin was filled with 
smoke and it was time to sleep. 1 recall how this smoke finally 
made a black cobweb drapery that swunt;' low from all the rafters 
in the cabin. 

All this ended when a tiaw ajipeared in the title to our 100 
acres of land : we lost everything- and left the country and 1 never 
again heard of my sailor boy companion. It was with borrowed 
money I secured deck passage on a tramp steamer bound for the 
copper mines, near Ontonag-on. Lake Superior; and with a plank 
for a bed. a block of wood for a pillow, and bread antl cheese for 
food, carried in a handkerchief, I followed my brother, who had 
preceded me, to the mines. Here were hundreds of miners with 
money plenty, nuich gambling, drinking, dancing and fighting, 
l)ut from these we kept aloof, though the whiskey, in our board- 
ing house, was daily passed around, free as water. We never 
tasted this, just passed it along, the miners taking no ottense at_ 
our refusal. 

Here suddenly appeared the possibility of getting the education 
we had always dreamed of. That our father, whose memory we 
most reverently cherishetl, was a man of some learning and had 
taken some part in ])ublic matters and was highly respected by his 
fellow-citizens, had a lasting iniluence on us. The short day's 
work of eight hours, though imderground 600 to 1,000 feet, and 
$16 to $20 per month with board, gave us the opportunity we had 
craved. Our first study A\as Monieth's Series of Geography, be- 
ginning with the outlines. No. i, a mere primer. This we fairly 
devoured, also learning to spell every word in the book. Follow- 
ing this came Numbers 2 and 3, finally making us fully proficient 
in that study. We took up. also, grammar, arithmetic, writing 
and spelling. We carried the spelling books in our belts, under- 
ground, and studietl at leisure moments by the light of our lamps 
or candles, and in this way mastered every word in the book and 
likewise became proficient in spelling. I^ach day, on emerging 
from the nunc and changing our wearing apparel, we withdrew 
from the societv of our fellows and climbed the hills to dream of 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 143 

the future, and study, and recite our lessons to each other. At 
length, one of the happy days of our lives arrived. One year and 
a half had passed at the mines and we had saved about $300.00 
each, when we began our march down through the woods to 
Ontonagon, where we took steamer to Detroit and thence bv rail 
to the Michigan State Normal School at Ypsilanti, where, with 
liveliest sentiments of alternating hope and fear, we took our ex- 
amination for admission and title to our place among 500 young 
men and women students. Thus was reached the first step in the 
ladder leading to higher ideals. Then followed two years of most 
arduous study; but meanv/hile the war of the rebellion had be- 
gun. iNIcClellan's army had been defeated on the James River. 
The victorious army of the South was marching northward, and 
Lincoln was calling for 300.000 more men. There was no resist- 
ing the fiery orations heard at the war mass meetings, nor the war 
songs, "Star Spangled Banner," and "Rally 'Round the Flag, 
Boys ;" no cooling the blood down to suit a student's life when 
comrades, under arms, were marching away with flags flying to 
the music of fife and drum, so I became a soldier anxious to earn 
the right to call the flag with the stars and stripes, my flag, and 
joined a company of Normal students and the 17th Regiment of 
Michigan Infantry. Our regiment marched to the front at once 
and was in every battle whenever it was possible to reach the 
field, serving under McClellan. Burnside, Sherman and ( irant. We 
took part in South Mountain, iVntietam, Fredericksburg, A'icks- 
burg, Jackson, Campbell's Station, Knoxville, Wilderness and 
Spottsylvania, besides several minor engagements. I was wounded 
at Campbell Station, on the retreat to Knoxville. At Spottsyl- 
vania, May 12, 1864, our regiment was nearly annihilated. We had 
left the State of Michigan one thousand strong and had received 
later about two or three hundred recruits. In our campaigns of 
nearly two years, many a comrade had dropped from our ranks, 
killed, wounded, sick or captured, so out of about 1,500 men on 
that May 12th, we had only 225 men for battle ; while charging the 
enemies works we were surrounded and engaged in a hand-to- 



144 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

hand fight where all were killed, wounded or captured, except 31 
men who managed to escape and of the 80 or 90 prisoners, in- 
cluding myself, taken to Andersonville, Georgia, few ever re- 
turned. 

In September, 1864, ji^^st before Sherman's army began its 
famous "marching through Georgia," many thousands, the strong- 
est of the thirty-five thousand prisoners in Andersonville, were 
removed to Florence and Salisbury and other prisons to prevent 
their recapture by Sherman. I was of those who went to Florence, 
but on arriving at the prison gate, comrade sergeant-major W. 
H. Russell and myself, by previous arrangement, made a dash 
from the guards and escaped to the swamps of South Carolina, 
but at the moment of flight, we, unfortunately, got separated, each 
going alone. We were pursued by soldiers and by bloodhounds, 
which lost our trail when we took to the waters of a creek or river; 
falling rain also favored us. obscuring the scent and confusing the 
hounds ; thus, while sitting against a tree in the forest on a rainy 
day, a bloodhound passed within a few feet, without noting my 
presence. Traveling was done mostly in the night, with the north 
star for a guide. Traversing the forest in a direct line and wad- 
ing through swamps without getting lost was largely due to my 
experience in the Canadian forests. Yet sometimes the luxuriant 
vegetation and soft nuul in the swamps threatened to entomb me, 
compelling a retreat and a passage around the swamps on more 
solid ground. In the meantime, the escape of several other 
prisoners had spread general alarm throughout the state, causing 
many South Carolinians to turn out with shotguns and rifles and 
guard every road and river and ford, using every bloodhound 
available. On coming suddenly upon such pickets in the night, 
they were usuall}- passed by laying down for a time, then patiently 
creeping away until out of danger. Thus one night, two guards 
advanced and sat down within ten feet of where I had suddenly 
dropped on the ground at their appearance. To lie still until they 
moved away seemed best, but overcome with fatigue, I fell asleep 
and upon awakening, alarmed at the situation, began to creep 



DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ArTS. 145 

away, inch l)y inch, until it was safe to be otT again. On the 
seventh nig^ht, after making- several successful dashes away from 
men or guards who were suddenly encountered. 1 was recaptured 
by some Confederate scouts and again returned to Florence 
prison — comrade Russell was also recaptured — and in Decenil)er, 
1864. ^\hen at death's door, I was paroled and later exchanged 
and liberated, receiving the ofificer's commission of first lieutenant 
promised me by our colonel at the battle of Spottsylvania at the 
time of capture ; and on regaining strength, returned to the seat of 
war just in time to hear the last guns fired near Appomattox, when 
the Confederate army, under General Lee, surrendered to L^. S. 
Grant. 

The war being ended. I resumed a student's life, graduating 
with the class of '67 of the State Normal School, and at once en- 
tering the University of Michigan, graduated in the literary de- 
partment \\ith the class of '70 and in law with the class of '71. In 
the meantime my brother, A. S. Maltman, had graduated in the 
Normal School, became a teacher and later one of Chicago's pros- 
perous and wealthy merchants. 

After employment in harbor work during a portion of 187 1 
and 1872 with the corps of U. S. engineers, I began the practice of 
law in Chicago and continued same for nearly ten years, or until 
1882, when failing health and the urgent need of outdoor life 
brought me to California. 

After wandering over that country in a camp wagon with wife 
and two children, tenting, hunting and fishing, up in the moun- 
tains and down by the sea, I finally settled in the citv of Los 
Angeles, resuming the practice of law for one year, when my 
health again demanded a return to outdoor life. Converting my 
small Chicago property into cash, I commenced a business career 
(Los Angeles then, A.D. 1882, had 12,000 inhaliitants, now A.D. 
1902, 125,000), beginning by purchasing several tracts of land, 
on part cash and part credit, subdividing portions of these into 
city blocks and lots, making from time to time nine difl:'erent sub- 
divisions ; graded many streets ; planted miles of shade trees and 



146 Class of '70. University of Michigan. 

a tract of land with 60,000 forest trees ; built many houses : con- 
ducted a farm ; a cattle business ; street railroad construction and 
operation ; invested in corporate stocks and bonds ; bored for oil 
and eng;aged in the oil business, the Los Angeles oil fields having 
begun with the first well bored on m\- land. These labors in Los 
Angeles continued 16 years, or from 1884 to 1899, and were most 
arduous and incessant and exclusive of every other purpose, even 
proper rest and recreation, refusing at all times to indulge in any 
ambition for the triumphs of public or private preferment outside 
of mv own business affairs. 

At length in 1889. believing my work done and that the time 
had arrived when the claims of labor were satisfied and my fortune 
ample, I decided to retire permanently fn)m business and return 
to matters of rest and recreation and more of the mind and heart, 
taking up again those higher ideals, never wholly forgotten in 
business cares, glimpses of which were disclosed by a school and 
college education and which are the best part of it all, ideals due 
very largely to the mental and social contact with that band of 
splendid fellows in the university, class of 70, now and ever of 
most precious memory. As an aid, I invoke good fellowship, the 
choicest Ijooks, judicious travel and the l)est the world has to give. 
L'pon entering this new life, so sharply contrasting with the un- 
fortunate child-life and subsequent toil and struggle, I experience 
the delight and expectation of those persons who have newly en- 
tered the world, with increasing rather than diminishing enjoy- 
ment. Already 1 have traveled extensively in America, from 
Florida north through the British Dominions ; also in Scotland to 
the old school where my letters were learned and where I paddled 
in the burn and picked the gowans, heather and bluebells, and 
after repairing the ruined slab and inscription on the tomb of my 
ancestors (now in the very heart of Glasgow), I journeyed to 
France and Germany. On again resuming travel, which will be 
very soon, I intend to visit the lands bordering on the Mediterra- 
nean and will probably continue through Lidia, China, Japan, 
completing the circle at Los Angeles. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 147 



In the midst of such projects, and the\- arc not all simply ma- 
terial, I am not ig-norinj^- the reflections which all must share whose 
life heg-ins to \vane, touching the wondrous mystery of this life 
which, seeming!}-, is leading us. at last, to the foot of another new 
ladder that would invite our ascension and which extends upward 
and away to higher and grander conditions, and to — God knows 
where." 

In college Mr. Maltman hecame a member of Alpha Delta Phi 
fraternity, was a speaker at the second Sophomore exhibition, and 
one of the speakers at the Junior exhil)ition and at class-day exer- 
cises. He was a member of the L'niversity Idee Club. 

He married Jennie Williams, of Dixon, 111., Dec. 30, 1874. 
Children: James \\'., Idieresa I., and William. His present ad- 
dress is 117 South llroadway. Los Angeles, Cal. 



Milo Elijah Marsh, B.S., LL.B. 

Lansingf, Mich. 

He was born in the township 
of Brighton, Livingston Co., Alich., 
Xov. 16, 1847. Was a farmer's 
boy and passed his early days on 
his father's farm. During the 
regular terms he attended the dis- 
trict school. When al)out 13 years 
old he went to Fentonville school 
and remained a couple of years. 
Later he A\ent to Iowa University 
for one year, then to Ann Arbor 
High School for two years and 
entered the University of Michi- 
gan in September, 1866, with the 
class of '70. He was a meinber of 

the Philozetian debating club and the Literary Adelphi society. 

After being graduated with the class he traveled through some of 




148 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

the Western states and visited his brother at Lawrence. Kans. In 
the fall of 1870 he purchased a horse and buggy at Lawrence and 
drove through the country back to Michigan, selling some books 
on the way to pay expenses. He then entered the law department 
of the University of Alichigan and was graduated in 1872, spend- 
ing his summer vacations at the old homestead on the farm. He 
then visited northern Michigan and finally located at Port Huron 
in the practice of law. In the following year he decided to give up 
law practice and to take up journalism. He exerted his efforts 
in the political field, by voice and pen. battling for bimetalism and 
against trusts and monopolies. In 1875 ^^^- Marsh became more 
conspicuous in political work, writing and speaking for reforms in 
legislation with a view of checking the tendency towards cen- 
tralization. In 1876 was one of the active w^orkers in the "Na- 
tional party." He continued in this work, editing and publishing 
a daily and weekly paper at Port Huron. Mich., until 1880, when 
he arranged to consolidate his publications with a paper at Detroit. 
But the negotiations finally failed, through no fault of his. He 
then removed his plant to Pontiac and continued his publications, 
keeping faith with his patrons, although under no legal obligation 
to do so, at a loss to him of nearly a thousand dollars. This shows 
how conscientious, upright and honorable Mr. Alarsh is in his 
business relations. In the spring of 1883 he consolidated his paper 
with the Lansing Sentinel, and took up his residence at Lansing. 
A daily was soon added to the weekly, entailing a large amount of 
writing and other work necessary to be done in connection with 
such publications. In addition to this Mr. Marsh was continually 
speaking during the regular political campaigns, and had the satis- 
faction of seeing his party finally succeed. Having labored long 
and continuously without rest his strength finally gave out and he 
decided to sell out his interest in the pulilications and to lease the 
plant. The ]\Iarsh heirs, desiring to have the subject of a family 
legacy in England investigated, delegated Mr. ]Marsh as their rep- 
resentative to look into the matter. Accordingly, he went to 
Europe in 1883, searched and found that there was such a legacy^ 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 149 

the only question l)eing- to whom chd it l)elong'. He was absent 
about three luonths and saw many interesting- objects and his- 
torical places in the Old World. On his return he again entered 
upon journalism with renewed vigor, but misfortune soon over- 
took him. A fall upon the ice laid him up for some months, during 
which he ran behind in his financial affairs, but as his condition 
improved he was able to liquidate most of his indebtedness. A 
rent balance, however, for which a promissory note was given, with 
chattel mortgage security on his household goods yet remained 
unpaid. This proved, unfortunately, to be the foundation of more 
trouble for him, for the creditor took undue advantage and en- 
deavored to take forcil)le possession of the mortgaged property 
long before the note was due, and assisted by his son, threw ]Mr. 
Marsh, in his weakened condition, out of the house and against a 
post, and upon the ground, causing a partial fracture and disloca- 
tion of the right hip socket joint. As a result j\Ir. j\Iarsh was con- 
fined to his bed, more or less, for two years and was obliged to 
use crutches for many years with which to get about. The as- 
sailants were punished criminally, and in a civil action Mr. Marsh 
obtained a judgment against them for $4,500. Absolutely nothing 
was realized on this judgment, as the defendants were execution 
proof. This litigation was very expensive for Mr. Marsh ; more- 
over he was eventually compelled to take a course of treatment at 
a sanitarium extending over two years. 

He was engaged for about two years in selling goods at whole- 
sale on the road. In i8c)o Mr. Marsh was appointed Deputy 
Labor Commissioner for the State of Michigan and held this posi- 
tion for two years, and was State Statistician of Michigan for the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture from 1893 to 1897. Since that 
time he has been engaged in editorial work and journalism, as 
legislative correspondent for several dailies. 

He was married Dec. 20. 1871. to ]Miss Ida J. Whitney, of 
Ann Arbor. Three children, named ]\Iyrtie Amont, Mirabel and 
Blanche W., were the fruit of this marriage. Mr. Marsh is now 
living at Lansine:, but is not in verv crood health. 



150 Class of "70, University of jMichigan. 

Rev. William Freeman Matthews, A.M., B.D. 
Chicagfo, III. 

Was lK)m ill liethel. At.. Oct. 31. 1849, tlie eldest of ftnir chil- 
dren. His father. Freeman T. ^Matthews moved to Bloomington, 
111., in 1855. Here William attended the public schools and be- 
j^an preparation for college at the Model School connected with 
the then new State Normal School, near Bloomington. In 1864 
he removed with his parents to Ypsilanti, Mich., where he finished 
preparation for college. He entered the University of Alichigan 
in 1866, and was graduated with the class of '70. He was a mem- 
ber of the Alpha Xu literary society, of the Philozetian (lel)ating 
club, and was one of the speakers at the Junior exhibition. His 
first employment after leaving the university was as teacher for 
one year in the high school at Grand Rapids. Mkh. In 1871 he 
entered Union Theological Seminary. New York, and was grad- 
uated therefrom in 1874. For several years following he was en- 
gaged in Missionary work in New York City. He went to Cier- 
many in 1878. and pursued studies at the University of Berlin. 
He visited man\- places of interest in Germany. Switzerland, Italy, 
France and Fngland, returning after a year's absence to carry out 
a pleasant and an important undertaking. That is to say. he 
married ]\Iiss Emma A. Simkins, of Coldwater, Mich., Dec. 23, 
1879, and took charge of a church in ^Michigan. During the next 
twelve years he had several charges in Indiana and Kansas. In 
1891 he removed to Kansas City, Mo., where he became connected 
with the university school for boys as head master and was en- 
gaged in preparing boys from some of the leading families of 
Kansas City, for college. He removed to Chicago in 1898, having 
sold his interests in the school, and has since been engaged in 
religious, missionary and educational work. He is now engaged 
in independent work, not being connected with any religious 
organizaticMi. He has three children — one son and two daughters. 
His son is pursuing a course in the University of Chicago. 

He says that, looking back over the past since '70 were to- 



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151 



gether, he feels that he has nian_\' thine^s to l)e thankful for and 
many l)lessings to acknowledge. That the bitter and the sweet 
have been mingled in the cup of his experience ; that opportunities 
for helping his fellow man have not lieen wanting. Those who 
know him are sure that these opportunities have been improved, 
and that he has done a good work in elevating the condition of 
such as have come within the sphere of his intiuence. His interest 
in his classmates increases with the passing of years and he stands 
ready to welcome any who may fa\'or him with a call. His pres- 
ent address is 3608 Lake Ave., Chicago. 



Michael Alexander Meyendorff, C.E. 



Seattle, Washington. 



He was born Dec. 3, 1849, in 
Letwenia Province, in Russian 
Poland. His father was a Polish 
nobleman of rank. When two 
years old his parents removed to 
the State of Minsk, where he re- 
mained until '63, attending three 
years at the government school 
(Gymnasium). Un April 17, '63, 
at the age of 13 years and three 
months he joined in a Polish in- 
surrection, with three older 
brothers, fought in three battles, 
and was taken prisoner the latter 
part of June, '63. A\'as kept seven 
months in prison, six of which were in solitary confinement, and 
then banished to Tobolsk. Siberia, for life. He traveled on foot 
seven months to reach Tobolsk, where he remained nine months. 
For political disturl)ances he was banished from Toliolsk to a 




152 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



sniallor town. Tomsk. 800 miles farther. I lore he remained nine 
months, when the I'niietl States (lovermnent. on aeeount of the 
distinguished services oi his half-hrother. Lo\. JnHan Allen, of 
New York, during the civil war. interceding for him, and his 
banishment was changed from Siberia to America. I le reachecl 
New York April 15. 'hb. and entcrcil the I'niversitv of Michigan 
with class of "70. on Xovemher 3. "60. In college he ioined the 
Chi Psi fraternitx and the Alpha Xu literary society, and was a 
favorite with the young ladies. His parents, accompanied bv three 
of his sisters, who met him in Xew York, have since been laid 
awa\' in their graves at Cypress Hill, r.rookhn. \. \'. 

After graduation he was engagctl in sur\eying on St. L. ^: S. 
E. R. R. and T. ]\I. & (',. T. R. R. until 'j2. when he was emitloyed 
in surveying on X. P. R. R. till Xovember. 'j^v 'be work being 
then suspended, he went io Arizona and then to C'alifornia. stu"- 
ve}ing for the San joacpiin .S; Ring River Lanal. In June. '73. he 
accepted the position of chief mineral clerk in Surveyor Cenerars 
office in Helena, ^loutana. In '74. he started in business for him- 
self as stu^veyor and agent for patents. I'.y an accident his leg was 
broken in July o\ same year, and he gave u]) the profession, lie 
was appointed clerk in the Interior Department. Washington, in 
January, 'y^. and in Ma\' following was ajipoiiUed superintendent 
of construction of the L'. S. Assay ( )fiice at 1 lelcna. Mtintaua. 
and in the fall of "76. Rresident (iraut api^oiiUed him melter in that 
office. He held the office of C. S. Melter at Helena. }ilontana. un- 
til the summer of 1893. when the political vicissitudes relegatetl him 
to private life, and the commercial vicissitudes of the same year 
reduced him to one of the "has beens." lie was obliged to begin 
his career anew. In the fall oi i8()4 he was appointed to the 
lucrative office of city engineer of Helena. Abintana. which office 
he held until next election, and as a reiitiblican. he lost his job. 
The year's earning ($i.JOO in warrants, 25 ])er ceiU. discount ) left 
him as rich as a new-born babe, except he had some of his good- 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 153 



to-ordcr-niade-clothcs, \\liich the Ijaljc lacked. During' his incum- 
bency as city engineer he began preparing- his lecture on "Personal 
Experiences — Russian Prisons and Siberian Exile," which he de- 
livered the first time in the summer of 1895. in Helena, Montana, 
and later on started on a lecturing- tour beyond the confines of the 
state. The lecture was delivered with llattering success, if the 
newspaper notices are to lie taken as a measure of it. Among- the 
more noted audiences before which the lecture was delivered, were 
those composed of the students of the Universities of Michigan 
and Wisconsin. Among the more prominent cities he lectured in 
were Salt Lake, Spokane, Minneapolis. Detroit, St. Joseph and 
Milwaukee. In Chicago and suburbs he lectured about six 
months. His last lecture was delivered before the L'nion League 
dub upon a complimentary invitation from the clul). 

The Repul)lican National Convention, held in St. Louis on 
June 12, 1896, found him there in the capacity of one of the special 
deputy sargeants at arms, and immediately thereafter he went to 
New York City to work among his countrymen for the Republican 
■cause. On August i, 1896, he was called to the Repu])lican head- 
quarters in Chicago, and took general charge of the Polish voters 
of the United States. He was appointed special agent of the Gen- 
eral Land Office, on December 13, 1897. with headquarters at 
Duluth, Minnesota. In January, 1899, was transferred to Boise, 
Idaho, and in September. 1901, to Rapid City. South Dakota, at 
which place he remained until December. 1902, when he was 
again transferred to Seattle, Wash., where he is now located. He 
•says he has no wife, no children, "no nothing". 



154 



Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



George Washington Mickle, C.E. 
Kansas City, Mo. 




Born in Lancaster, Penn., 
February 17. 1848. His father, 
John C. Mickle, was a farmer. In 
his l>oyhood George went with his 
father's family to Sterhng. 111., 
w here he obtained his early educa- 
tion and where he prepared for en- 
tering college. He entered the 
L niversity of Alichigan with class 
of "70 in the fall of 1866, and took 
the regular civil engineering 
course and was graduated there- 
from. He was a member of the 
Literary Adelphi and the Philo- 
zetian debating club. The sum- 
mer and fall of "70 he spent in Iowa surveying a railroad with 
Rolla Reeves, of class of '69. In "71 he returned to Ann Arbor 
and worked astronomical problems with Prof. James C. Watson, 
of the university. In the summer of '^2 he worked in the lake 
survey under O. B. Wheeler, at Detroit, going from that place to 
Jackson, Michigan, where he formed a partnership with J. S. Bird, 
of '70, in engineering and contracting. Among other pieces of 
work done were sewers in Jackson, at Hillsdale College, work on 
harbor improvements at Muskegon, ^lanistee and Frankfort, 
Mich., and on the hospital building at Ann Arbor. In Januaiy, 
1874, he married Miss Rhoda E. Saville, of Ruby, Mich. She 
held the position of preceptress of the Jackson High School just 
previous to their marriage. They took for a bridal trip a journey 
overland to California, returning by water to New York via the 
Isthmus of Panama. They then settled in Jackson. Mich., where 
Mr. Mickle remained until the fall of 1877, when he and Mr. Bird 
went to Kansas and published county maps until the summer of 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 155 



'81, Avhcn they dissolved partnership. In December of the same 
year ]\Ir. ]\lickle went to Leavenworth, Kansas, and engaged in 
mercantile Inisiness, hardware, farming implements and carriages, 
tmtil April, "91. He then went to Kansas City, Missouri, and 
opened a real estate and brokerage office, which lousiness he is fol- 
lowing at the present time. Mr. Mickle's family consists of his 
wife and two daughters, Florence Elizabeth, aged 22 years, and 
Annie Irene, aged 18 years. They are graduates of the Leaven- 
worth Hio'h School. 



Bernard Moses, Ph.D. 
Manila, P. I. 

Was born August 28, 1846, in the town of Burlington, Con- 
necticut. Was prepared for college at Wesleyan Academy in 
Wilbraham, Mass. He entered the L'niversity of ^Michigan in 
September, 1866, with the class of "70. Became a member of the 
Alpha Nu literary society ; was one of the speakers at the first 
Sophomore exhibition ; was one of the editors of the University 
Chronicle ; was class orator in Senior year, speaking at Class Day 
exercises on "The Mind in Reform." After graduation, he went 
to Germany by way of England ; spent July, August and following 
months in Leipzig ; entered the University of Leipzig" at the be- 
ginning of the fall term ; went to the University of Berlin for the 
spring term, '71 ; spent the long- vacation, '71, in Norway and 
Sweden, most of it in X^orway ; retLU^ned to Berlin for the fall 
term. In the spring' of 'ji, he went again to Sweden, leaving in 
March ; spent ten months in Sweden on this visit, chiefly at L p- 
sala and Stockholm, studying Swedish history in the Lil^rary at 
Upsala and in the Royal Archives in Stockholm. He left Stock- 
holm January 6. '73, and went to Italy, by way of Berlin and 
Munich, visiting the principal cities; returned to Germany and 
took up his studies at Heidelberg in April, 'j'}) - spent the spring 
and summer in Heidelberg, and in August received from the 
University of Heidelberg the degree of Doctor of Philosophy ; in 



156 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

September. '73, returned to the United States by way of Paris 
and Southanipton. From the fall of '73 to the fall of "75, he was 
in Ann Arbor continuing his studies. During" this time he wrote 
an article on "The Negotiations on the Swedish Invasion of 
Germany," which was printed in "The Xew Englander"" in '74. 
In September, '75, he became professor of history and English 
literature in Albion College. In December, "75, he resigned the 
Albion professorship and went to California to take the professor- 
ship of histor}- in the University of California, and later became 
professor of history and political economy. 

He was married June 15, "80, to Mary Edith Briggs, Berke- 
ley, California. The summer vacation of '85, he spent in Mex- 
ico ; that of '86, he spent in Holland and Germany, attending the 
celebration of the 500th anniversary of the University of Heidel- 
berg. The summer vacation of "87 he spent in Germany Switzer- 
land and Italy. Of books, he had a hand in making "Politics: 
A Study of Comparative Constitutional Law," by \\'. W. Crane 
and Bernard Moses, New York, G. P. Putnan Sons, 1884, and 
is the author of "The Eederal Government of Switzerland," 
"Democracy and Social Growth in America," and "The Establish- 
ment of Spanish Rule in America." 

He filled the chair of history and political economy at the 
Universit}' of California with great satisfaction for twenty-five 
years, until President McKinle}' appointed him on the United 
States Philippine Commission, of which Judge Taft is president. 
For the past two years Moses has l^een assisting in the solution 
of our oriental problems. He has full charge of the department 
of public instruction in the Philippine Islands. It is to be re- 
gretted that detailed information concerning- his work in this 
new field is lacking, as it would be of great interest to all of his 
friends and classmates. He certainly has abundant opportunity 
to exert his resourceful abilities in looking after the needs of the 
180,000 native children enrolled in the free public schools, the 
10,000 adult Filipinos attending the evening schools to learn Eng- 
lish, the 1,000 American teachers and the 4,000 Filipino teachers 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 157 



laboring to educate both old and younj;' in the Islands. In a 
recent letter he says: "If }0U can persuade the boys to appoint 
their next reunion in Manila, I will constitute myself a committee 
of arrang'ements to see that they are well provided for." 



Alfred Noble, C.E., LL.D. 
New York, N. Y. 




Was born August 7, 1844, at 
Livonia, Wa^ne Co., Michigan, 
where his parents, Charles and 
Lavonia ( Douw ) Noble, resided 
on a farm. His grandfather, 
Norton Noble, was in the war of 
181 2, and his ancestors were in 
the revolutionary war. He re- 
ceived his early education at the 
district school of his native place. 
He lived on the farm until 1862, 
when he enlisted for the civil war 
in the 24th Mich. \'ol. Inf., and 
from October, 1862, to February, 
1865, he took part in all the battles 
of the Army of the Potomac. Was mustered out of the service in 
June, 1865. From July, "65, to September, '67, he held a position 
in the War Department at Washington. Alade his preparation 
for college at the Union School, Plymouth, Alich., and with private 
instructors in Washington. He entered the University of Michi- 
gan in '67 as a sophomore in class of "70. W hile an under- 
graduate he was absent a year and a half in the employ of the gov- 
ernment and kept up his studies at the same time, taking his degree 
with the class. He was a member of the Philozetian debating 
club and the Alpha Nu literary society ; joined the Alpha Delta 
Phi fraternity; was elected vice-president of his class in Junior 



158 Class of '70, LLmveksitv of Michigan. 

year. From June to Septcnilier, "70, he was engaged on harbor 
surveys on the eastern shores of Lake Alichigan and at Chel^ovgan 
and Alpena on Lake Huron. In Octolier, 1870, he was put in 
charge of the work at Sault Ste. ]\Iarie. Mich., and when, in 1873, 
it was found necessary for the government to build a new lock 
he practically, under the direction of Gen. Godfrey Weitzel of 
the United States Engineer Corps, designed and brought to a suc- 
cessful completion one of the present locks, now called the Weitzel 
lock. Most of the locks, previous to that, had been filled by ad- 
mitting water through slides in the upper gates, and the water 
was released in the same way with slides in the lower gates. The 
old locks at the Sault were operated by a windlass and hand 
power. 

Mr. Noble not only desig'ned the new lock. Init he also intro- 
duced the innovation oi having the lock filled by two long cul- 
verts sunk below the floor of the lock with openings. Water was 
admitted to these culverts at the upper end with large openings, 
and the lock was filled from beneath. The hydraulic power was 
introduced by means of a turbine wheel, with pistons and water 
under pressure by which the locks were opened and closed entire- 
ly by water power, and not in the old fashioned way. The entire 
masonry, machinery and design of this lock, as laid out. and as 
completed by Mr. Noble, were found by experience sufficient to 
meet his most sanguine expectations, and to-day. after twenty 
years of service, the lock stands substantially as built, a monu- 
ment to his ability and genius. 

Li August. 1882. on the practical completion of the construc- 
tion of the canal, he resigned his position to accept an appoint- 
ment as resident engineer of the R. R. bridge across Red River 
at Shreveport. La. In March, '83, he resigned this position also 
to accept a similar one for the construction of a bridge across 
Snake River at Ainsworth, Washington Territory. In September 
of that year he took charge of a bridge over Clark's Fork of the 
Columbia River in INIontana. Snake River bridge was completed 
in May, "84. and Clark's Fork bridge in June. Mr. Noble began 
the construction of foundations of an iron viaduct across Marent 
Gulch, Alontana, in September of the same year, and the founda- 
tions of a bridge across St. Louis Bay, at west end of Lake 



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Superior in October. He completed the foundations and the erec- 
tion of the superstructure of Marent Gulch viaduct in June. '85, 
and St. Louis Bay bridge in May, according- to original plans, and 
began the construction of an additional draw span in July ; and 
from August to October was at Trenton. X. J., inspecting iron 
work for the draw span. From October, '85, to January, "86, he was 
attending to the erection of St. Louis Bay bridge ; February, '86, 
he was in New York City, in the of^ce of Geo. S. Morison. During 
March and April he was inspecting bridge manufacture in Buffalo, 
and in May was inspecting iron at Pottsville. Pa. He then re- 
turned to New York in June. He visited Omaha bridge in July 
and then went to St. Paul, for temporary duty in the office of N. 
P. R. R.. as acting principal assistant engineer. In September 
that year he went to Pittsburg to inspect iron for the same com- 
pany, but soon accepted an appointment as resident engineer of the 
bridge across Harlem River, at 181 st St.. New York City, where 
he remained till July. 'S'/. when he resigned to accept an appoint- 
ment as resident engineer of Illinois Central R. R. bridge across 
the Ohio River at Cairo. 111. ; and in '88. assumed charge, also as 
resident engineer, of the bridge across the Mississippi River, at 
Memphis. Tenn. 

The Cairo bridge was opened for traffic Oct. 29, 1889. and 
his connection therewith closed with the following month. The 
Memphis bridge was opened for traffic in May, 1892. He then 
moved to Chicago and entered into a limited partnership with ]\Ir. 
Geo. S. Morison, who had been chief engineer of the Cairo and 
Memphis bridges. During the term of this partnership Noble was 
assistant chief engineer of the bridge at Alton across the Missis- 
sippi and the bridges across the Missouri at Bellefontaine and 
Leavenworth. After the expiration of the partnership April 30, 
1894, he began a general practice as consulting engineer, which he 
still continues. The degree of LL.D. was conferred on Alfred 
Noble by the University of Michigan in June. 1895. He was ap- 
pointed a member of the Nicaragua canal board by President 
Cleveland in 1895. The appointment was not sought by him and 
was peculiarly gratifying for this reason and also because it placed 
him in connection with an engineering problem of great interest 
which w-as in line with his earlier work. The board visited 



160 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



Central America, examined the route of the Nicaragua canal and 
also the Panama canal : then returned to the United States and 
completed its work Xov. 1. 1895. In July, 1897, he was appointed 
hy President McKinley a member of the U. S. board of engineers 
on deep waterways to make surveys and estimates of cost for a 
ship canal from the Great Lakes to deep water in the Hudson 
River. This was also congenial work. It was completed in 
August, 1900. In June, 1899. he was also placed by President 
]\IcKinley on the Isthmian Canal Commission, which was charged 
with the determination of the best canal route across the American 
isthmus. The work of this commission is now completed. Dur- 
ing its continuance Xoble visited Europe with his colleagues to 
examine the data relating to the Panama canal collected in the 
office of the canal company in Paris, and visited the Kiel, Amster- 
dam and [Manchester ship canals. He also made two more trips to 
Central America to examine more fully the canal routes there. 

In the spring of 1898 he was appointed by William R. Day, 
then Assistant Secretary of State, as arbitrator in a dispute be- 
tween a citizen of this country and the government of San 
Domingo. He visited that island, returning to New York a few 
days before the declaration of war with Spain. In the autumn of 
1900 he was appointed a member of an engineer board to advise 
the state engineer of Xew York concerning the plans and estimates 
for a barge canal across that state. 

Alfred Xoble is a past president of the Western Society of 
Engineers, and has been a vice-president of the American Society 
of Civil Engineers. He was married May 31, 1871, to Miss 
Georgia Speechlv, of Ann Arbor. They have one son, Frederick 
Charles, who was graduated from the engineering department at 
Ann Arbor in 1894 and is now following his profession in Kansas 
City. 

In Xovember. 1901, the city authorities of Galveston, Texas, 
appointed Alfred Xoble, Henry C. Ripley and Gen. Robert as a 
board of engineers to devise a plan for protecting the city and 
suluirbs from future inundations. They reported a plan involv- 
ing the building of a solid concrete wall over three miles long and 
seventeen feet in height above mean low water, the raising of the 
city grade and the making of an embankment adjacent to the wall, 
the whole to cost about three and a half millions of dollars. 



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Early in 1902 Mr. Xolile was appointed chief engineer of the 
East I\iver section of the new Pennsylvania Railroad terminal in 
New ^'()rk C"it\'.in\(ilvinL;- a nianmioth tunnel from the Xew [ersey 
shore under Hudson l\i\er. .\cw \'ork C'it\- and h^ast River to 
Loui^- Island, the whole to cost thirty to forty millions of dollars. 

Air. .\(il)le"s present address is 20 West 34th Street, Xew York, 
X. V. 

Clark Olds, M.S. 
Erie, Pa. 



He was Ixirn jul\- 14, 1850, at 
['^.rie. Pa., where he spent his l)Ov- 
hood at school and where he pre- 
];ared for collei^e. 11 e entered the 
Iniversit}' of Michigan in Sep- 
tcmher, 1866, with the class of "70, 
and took his 1!..S. degree with the 
class. He joined the Zeta Psi 
fraternity, the .\l])ha Xn literary 
society and the Philozetian dehat- 
ing cluh; was one of the speakers 
at the tirst .Sophomore exhihitit.n. 
The summers of "70 and '71, he 
was in l*. .S. surve\- on Lakes 
.Michigan and Superior, as assist- 
ant engineer, and had charge of the U. S. steamer "Surveyor." 
During the folio wir.g summer, that of '/2. he was at h\)r.d 
du Lac, Wis., measuring a hase line for Michigan Lake Survey. 
]n fall of that year he went to Europe, visiting, en route, the prin- 
cipal cities of Ireland and England, stopping a cou]jle of weeks in 
London, then crossed over to the continent, going to Hamhurg, 
llerlin, Dresden, the Pohemian mountains, Saxonv, Switzerland 
and then to a beautiful town in Silesia, where he studied (ierman 
for a time, and subse(|ueritl\- he was admitted as a regular student 
at the L niversity of Leipzig. He returned home in '/^. antl was 




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Class of 'yo, Unixkksitv of Michigan. 



employed on primary l^ase line work as assistant engineer on U. 
S. lake surve}- on Lake Ontario, and at lluitalo, until Alay, '76, 
when he was admitted to the bar, and eommenced practicing law 
at Erie. l^a. Me has lieen successfully engaged in his profession 
ever since. In January. 1896. he was selected as a commissioner 
of the water works in Erie and has served on the board con- 
tinuoush- e\-er since, now being its president. He is thoroughly 
conversant with ever}- detail of that department and the services 
he has rendered to the city have been invaluable. Was married 
Dec. 13. '76. to Li\ia E. Keator. of Cortland. X. Y. Children: 
Ronievn Keator. Irving Sands, and Marguerite Elizabeth, of 
whom Irving Sands, only, is living. 

^\v. ( dds is an assoeiate mem1)er of the American Society of 
Civil Engineers, and an honorar}' meml)er of Picking Xaval Ciar- 
rison and Arm\- and Xavv I'nion. 



Darius Comstock Pennington, B.S. 

Vacaville, Solano Co., Cal. 

Was l)orn in Macon Ttiwnship. 
l.enawce Co.. Aiich.. .\pril 22. 
1847. '^i^ father. Israel I'enning- 
ton, was l)orn in Town of Perrin- 
ton. W'avne L"o.. X. ^'.. and was 
of old I'jiglish veoman Quaker 
ancestrw .\s an early pioneer of 
Alicliigan he cleared the first farm 
and planted the first orchard in 
Macon Townshi]). In |)olitics he 
entered heartih into the abolition 
movemer.t which resulted in the 
overthrow of slavery and was a 
life-long member of the Society of 
hriends. commouh' known as 
Quakers. He was an honored member of the comnnmity in which 
he lived, being respected and esteemed b}- all who knew him. His 





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death occurred January 4, 1883. at the age of 68. The mother of 
Darius was of Scotch- Irish ancestry, a native of East Sparta, 
Seneca Co., X. Y. She possessed sterHng" quaHties, which were 
transmitted to the sul)iect of this sketch. Her Hfe was that of a 
pioneer farmer's wife. In lier Innulile \\3.\ she exerteil a l)ene- 
ficial influence upon tliose alxuit her and sustained the lionor and 
dig'nitv of American womanhood. She (Hed June 10, i8(jo. 

Darius received the usual e(hication of a farmer's son, at the 
district school and later at a I'riend's hoarding" sch(X)l near Adrian, 
Mich. He enlisted as a soldier in the Civil War at the age of 18, 
in Fehruarw 1865, in Co. D, 1 ith ]\lich. \'ol. Inf., and was ap- 
pointed a corporal, hut the war was drawing to a close and after 
eight months' service he was mustered out. He entered the L^ni- 
versity of Michigan in the fall of 1866, with the class of "70. In 
college he was a memher of the Literar}- Adelphi and the I'hi 
Delta Theta fraternity. In 1882 he joined the Ancient ( )rder of 
Free Masons. ( )n Septemher 12, 1870, he married Miss Lottie 
Taylor, of Ann Arhor, Mich. They went to Kansas and remained 
ahoiit a year on a fruit farm near Emporia, then returned to the 
old homestead near Macon, Mich., where the}' continued farming 
and fruit raising for seven or eight }'ears and then removed to 
Dakota and engaged in raising wheat. Here the drouths and 
hail storms and other adverse circumstances tried their patience 
for five vears until they concluded to go to the Pacific coast and 
engage once more in growing nursery stock and planting and 
caring for orchards. That husiness has heen followed ever since. 
Mr. Pennington has traveled through man}- of the United States 
and especialh- the State of California, with which he is thorotigh- 
iy familiar, h'or a time he resided at Santa Rosa, later at I'.akers- 
field, Kern Co., then at Sacrament(.), and is iiow ( i(j02) at \'aca- 
ville, Solano Co. 

They have three children now living, viz. : J*dizal)eth, John 
and \\ illiam. They were visited hy an overpowering calanfitv in 
the loss of their other three children, viz. : Harrison, Edward 
and Kenneth, hy di])htheria within one week, two of them during 
the same night. Elizaheth is married to Mr. DeW'itt Saulshury. 
They reside at Chico, I'utte Co., Cal., and have three children. 

John has served a term of vears in the regular armw having 



164 



Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



lieen in Co. AI, i8tli Reoular In4. He returned a few months 
since from the I'hihppine Islands. W'ilham is married and lives 
at Sacramento. Cal.. and is in the employ of the Southern I'acitic 
R. R. Co. 

William Lorenzo Penfield, A.B. 
Washington, D.C. 

Me was horn at Dover. Lena- 
wee Co., Mich.. April 2, 1846. His 
parents were William and Lucinda 
( h'elton I i'entield. His early life 
^.^^ was that of a farmer's hoy. His 

^^ • final ]Drc])aration for college w as at 

Hillsdale and Adrian, Alich. Kn- 
terini^- the Cniversit\- of Michi,nan 
in 1865, he enrolled with the class 
of "70 in the fall of 1868. He was 
elected orator of his class in 
junior }-ear : was appointed one of 
the s]X"akers at the Junior "E.x.," 
and also one of the speakers at 
Commencement : was a mem1)er of 
the Literar\- .\delphi. .\fter receiving- his degree in 1870. he was 
instructor in Latin and ( ierman for two _\ears in Adrian College, 
reading law at the same time. Was admitted to the har in Janu- 
ary, 1872, at Adrian. Mich., and commenced law i)ractiee at .\u- 
hurn, Tnd., January, 1873, where he at once took a leading pnri in 
pending litigation, l-'rom 1876101880 he was citv attornev : in 1884 
was a memher of the Repu!)lican State Committee: in 1888 was 
presidential elector and electoral messenger: was a delegate to the 
National Repuhlican Convention in i8(j2: judge of 35th circuit 
of Indiana from i8(j4to i8(j7. President McKinlev a])])i)inted him 
solicitor of the Cnited States l^epartment of State in i8(j7. which 
position he still holds. He has shown marked ahilit\' and good 
judgment in handling the many important and intricate cpiestions 




Di:i'ARi\Mi-:xT OF Literature, Science, and Arts. 165 



wliich have arisen in the State Department from tlie commence- 
ment of the S])anish war to the ])resent time. I !e was counsel for 
the United States and recovered awards, amountini^" to over two 
and one-half million dollars, in favor of the I'nited States in inter- 
national arhitrations against Xicaragua, Haiti, the Dominican Re- 
puhlic, Peru, (iautemala. Chili, Salvador and Mexico. Is counsel 
for the United States in arljitrations pending- with (iermany, 
Russia and Mexico, i le sailed from New York, August i6, 1902, 
enroute to Holland, where he went as counsel for the United States 
in the arl)itration with Mexico before The Hague international 
tribunal. This case involved aliout one million dollars and was 
the first to come before that tribunal. 

The Xew York Tribune in its issue of August 2, 1902, said: 
"The government is prett}' well satisfied over its experiences 
with international arbitration in the last six years, and it is not 
likelv to hesitate to subnfit to an impartial tribunal anv matters of 
dispute which may arise with other nations, exce-pt such pre- 
posterous claims as those advanced by Canadian politicians over 
the long- ago defined Alaskan boundar}-, and which cannot be re- 
garded as open to any question whatever. Most of the recent 
controversies in which the L'nited States has been concerned, and 
which have been subnfitted to arltitration tribunals, have arisen 
from damage claims filed b\' American citizens against Latin- 
American Republics. 

"Judge I'enfield. the solicitor of the State Dei)artment, w ho pre- 
pares all the international cases of American claimants, and on 
whose judgment they are pressed or abandoned, says there have 
I)een sixteen cases submitted to arl)itration by the United States 
since March 4, iHij^, and of these three are still pending. ( )nly 
two cases have lieen lost out of the sixteen. One was a small case 
against Mexico, which was decided by \[i-. Ouesada. the Argen- 
tine Minister at Madrid. The other was a claim of $10,000 
against Salvador, which was regarded by this government as a 
perfectly plain and just case, but the arliitrators, unfortunately. 
were citizens of other Latin- American States. The remaining 
eleven cases were won outright by the United States. In two of 
the three still pending the courts have unnfistakabh- intimated a 
verdict for the United States, and the third is regarded as a 
foregone conclusion in favor of this countrv." 



166 



Class of '70, University of Michic;ax. 



The Hag-ne tribunal decided that Mexico must pay $1,420,000 
in ]\Iexican currency to the United States in settlement of its 
claim, being- another victory for Uncle Sam largely through Pen- 
field's able management and advocacy. 

He delivered an al)le address lief ore the Indiana State liar As- 
sociation, July g, UJC2, on "Some Difficulties of Pan-American 
Arbitration." 

He married Luna Walter, of I'.ucyrus, ( )., June 28, 1875. They 
have two children. L)lanche and Walter, the latter lieing a graduate 
of the University of Michigan. 

He is a member of the National GeogTaphical Society, the 
Academy of Political Science, Indiana State Bar Association and 
American liar .Association. Mce-President of the Washington 
Universitv of Alichigan Alumni Association. His present address 
is De\ve^■ Plotel, Washington, L). C. 



Aaron Perry, B.S., LL.B. 

Pontiac, Mich. 



Was born on a farm in Oak- 
land Count}-, Michigan, Xov. 11, 
1848. He was the youngest of a 
family of eight children. His 
mother was l:)orn in Genesee Co., 
Xew York, and his father in W'ar- 
ren County. New Jerse}'. His 
mother died when he was two 
years old and his father when he 
was of the age of fifteen years. 
l'"rom his father's estate he re- 
ceived the small sum of seven 
luriidred dollars, and \\-ith that and 
n-ionev borrowed by hini he ob- 
tained his collegiate education. 
He received his preparatory education in the Clarkston uriion 
school, of Oakland Countv. and entered the L'niversitv of Michi- 




DeI'ART.MKNT of LlTERATrRK, SciEXCE, AND ArTS. 107 

g"an with, and was t^raduated with, tlie class of '70. He joined the 
Literary Adelplii ar.d was one i)f the speakers at the second Sopho- 
more exhi1)ition. In the fah of 1870 he entered into pohtics and 
came within one \i)\.c of securing' the nomination of his party's 
convention for the State legislature. Ihv following school year 
he taught the ( )rtonville .Vcademw in his nati\e count}-, and dur- 
ing the school vear of 1872-3 he was superintendent of the Ovid 
Union School in Clinton County, Alichigan. In the famous 
Greelv campaign of 1872 he was elected a memher of the State 
legislature from his native district on the Democratic ticket, and 
was one of the small minority of only six in the whole legislature. 

At the close of the session in the spring of 1873 ^^'^ went to 
]\Iuskegon, ]\Iich., and took charge of the L'. S. harhor improve- 
ments at that place, under C. ]\I. Wells, of '70. where he remained 
imtil the fall, when he entered the law department of the L'ni- 
versit-\' of Alichigan. ( )n Christmas, 'y^^, he married Satldie lloti- 
man, of Pontiac, Alichigan, who had heen one of his assistant 
teachers in (_)vid. In A larch, '74, he attended a special session of 
the State legislature, called for the purpose c^f considering and 
suljmitting" to the people for their approval at the n.ext election, a 
new State Constitution. That session continued ahout forty days, 
during' which time Air. Perry roomed with Col. C. P. (irant, of 
Ann Arhor, then speaker of the lower house, and now one of the 
Supreme Court justices of the State of Alichigan. It is a matter 
of some pride to him that, on account of his al)ility in rushing 
lousiness, he was called upon to preside more during that session 
than any other mcml)er excepting two, arid that during his term 
of office he was ena!)led to do some good work in the interest of 
the imiversity. 

During the next sununer he was for a time in the L'. S. service 
as harbor inspector on the west coast of Alichigan, and also 
traveled some in Illinois, Wisconsin and the L'pper Peninsula of 
Alichigan. In the fall of 1894 he was a candidate for countv clerk 
and, in a total vote of ahout ten thcusaiid, was defeated h}' the 
aggravatinglv small maiorit\' of eleven votes. That defeat he 



168 Class uf 'to, UNr\-ERSiTv of Michigan. 



now counts as one of his strokes of oood fortune. I'hat fall he 
returr.cd to the law department of the uni\-ersit\-, and was i^rad- 
uated the next s])rino-. Then he s])ent two summers at Sand 
Beach, Mich., assisting" (lill)ert, of "70. in charge of the work of 
constructing- the l". S. harhor of refu,i;e at that ])lace, spendini;- the 
intervenint.;- winter studying" law in the office of ludoe A. C 
Baldwin, at I'ontiac. 

In the fall of 1876 he entered activelx' into the Tilden cam- 
pai,^-n and stumped ( lakdand Count}' in the interest of the Demo- 
cratic cause, and, after election entered into law i)artnership with 
Judge Taft, at I'ontiac. and continued with him for two \ears. 

The spring of 187S he was appointed cit\- attorney of I'ontiac. 
and tilled that office in all for a period of eight \ears. In the fall 
of 1878 he was elected iirosecuting attorney of his countv. ar.d 
held that office two years. Since that time he has not been a 
candidate for any office excepting one. when he ran for the office 
of circuit judge and was defeated, although he ran eonsiderahly 
ahead of his ticket. 

Since 1876 Mr. I'erry has practiced law continuously in the 
city of I'ontiac. He has been more than ordinarih' successful, and 
for a number of years has had the best practice of anv attornex' in 
Oakland COunty, and is the acting i)resident of the local bar. 
Both his tastes and his a])titude fit him better for the trial of issues 
of law than issues of fact, and, for that reason, he has argued a 
large number of cases before the Michigan Su])reme Court, in a 
great majorit}' of which he has been successful. 

Ble has never been outside of North .\merica. although he has 
traveled quite extensively in the Cnited States, lie has accumu- 
lated a large law librar\- and (|uite an extensi\e collection of mis- 
cellaneous books. .Mthough he belongs to a fishing club, he has 
not caught a fish or fired a gun in thirt_\' years and has no tastes 
for sports of any kind, and would any time rather dig fossils from 
a disintegrating ledge of rocks than to attend a horse race or ball 
game, lie has made a specialt_\- of geolog)' and microsco])}- and 



DlLl'ARTMKNT OF Llll-:RATLKli:, Sci)-:XCE, AND ArTS. 161) 



lias had nian\" hours of recreation in j^atherini^' fiissils and in 
liuntin^' and exaniininL^" niicrosco])ical specimens, lie has a larg-e 
private cahinet of fossils and other geological specimens and has 
an extensive collection of hooks Ujjon the snhject of geology. 

Mr. Perrv has onlv one child, a son, Stuart II. Perry, who 
was graduated in iH(;4 from the literary dei)artment of the L'ni- 
versitv of Michigan, taking the degree of .\.\)., and in the law 
departmer.t of the same institution two }ears later. After grad- 
uation he entered into i)artnership with his father, under the tirm 
name of A. & S. H. Perry. 1m )r a year prior to August ist, 1901, 
the firm maintained an office in the city of Detroit under the ])er- 
sonal charge of the junior memher thereof. The son remained a 
memher of the firm until .\ugust of that \ear, when he purchased 
an interest in the ( lakland C'ountx' Post and the Pontiac Daily 
Press, of h(jth of which he has heen the editor since that time, his 
first editorial experience heing while he was managing editor of 
the Inlander in the l'niversit\- of Michigan. He has traveled ex- 
tensively in the L'nited States, Mexico and Kurope, is a member 
of the American Microscopical Society and has written some for 
that society's publications. Although his tastes are literary he 
shares his father's tastes for geology and has written also f(^r 
publication in that line. lie married Maude Caldwell, a daughter 
of Dr. William C Caldwell, of b'remont. ( )hio, whom he first met 
as a student at the I'niversity of Michigan, and he now has one 
chikl. W bile connected with the Detroit bar he wrijte a law liook 
entitled, "The Legal Adviser and liusiness (Suide,"" which has just 
appeared. 



170 



Class of '70, University of INIiciiigan. 




Samuel B. Price, A.B., LL.B. 

Scranton, Pa. 

He was i)orn in Branchville, 
Sussex Co., New Jersey, April 29, 
1847. Attended the common 
schools there, after reaching" the 
])roper age, until the spring- of '65. 
Then he entered lUairstown I'res- 
I)\'terial Acadeni}- and completed 
his preparation for college there in 
June, "66. Was examined for ad- 
mission at Princeton sln)rtly after 
and admitted. Entered the Col- 
lege of Xew Jersey, class of "70, 
at the opening of the term, in the 
autumn of "66. He continued in 
the regular course with the class 
of '70, at Princeton, until some time in the spring of '68, when, on 
accour.t of ill health, he returned to his home in l'.ranch\-ille, and 
remained there until ahout the lirst of Septemher, when he went 
to Ann Arhor, arid took up a special course of stud_\- in the uni- 
versit}- curriculum and heg-an stud_\-iiig- law. These studies he 
continued urAil ahout May, '69, when he determined to make up 
the studies which he had not taken in the regular classical c(jurse 
and to h.e graduated with the class of '70. He s])ent the summer 
in making- up his lost Latin and Greek. Immediately after the 
Commenceniei:t of "70, he again eritered upon the stu(l\- of the law 
in the law liiirary ci the I'niversity of Alichigan, and continued 
there until the operiing of the law term of '70. when he entered 
that departmer.t ar.d remained until jannar}- or l''ehruar\-, "71. He 
then left the universit)- arid went to his home in Jiranchville, ar.d 
hecamc principal of the commrsn schools of that town ahout the 
iirst of April, and conducted them until al)out the first of ( )ctolK'r. 
"71. He then returned to Ann Arhor and completed the law 
course in March, '72. He was a meml)er of the W'ehster societv 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 171 



and its president during;- the latter part of his eourse. In Aug-ust, 
'72. he went to Scranton, Pa., and, after i)iirsuin!^- the study of 
law for six months, was admitted to the har of Lnzerne I'ounty 
and immediately beo^an practice. 

He is one of the manag-ers of the Scranton rn])lic Library, and 
also president of the Princeton Alinnni Association of North- 
eastern Pennsylvania. 

He has been a director of the Scranton Savings I'.ank since 
January, i88cj. About f(jur years ago he was elected president of 
the bank and continues in that position at present. His business, 
however, is that of an attorney at law, and he is in active practice. 

He was married b'ebruary 9th, "8t, to Julia Hosie, of Scran- 
ton, who died December 14th, 1898. ( )ne child, Harold A., died 
julv 16th, 1896, aged six years. He has two Ixiys now living — 
Cole B., aged 19 years, a freshman at Princet(jn University ; and 
John H., aged 17 years, preparing for college at Plair l^-esl;)yterial 
Academv, Plairstown, X. ]. 



Henry Clay Ripley, C.E. 

Ann Arbor, Mich. 

He was Ijorn on a farm in the 
town of Broadalban, Montgomery 
County, New York, July 15th, 
1845. His father, Eliakim Cornell 
Ripley, was born in tlie same 
house thirty years earlier. His 
occupation was that of farmer and 
school teacher until 1853, when he 
moved to IMichigan and went into 
the luml)er business at Saginaw, 
where he died in 1892, at the age 
of // vears. His ancestors were 
English. Phebe Fairly IVnch. the 
maternal ancesttjr, was Ijorn at 
(ireenbush, Rensselaer County, 
New York, of l-Lnglish ancestry, 1)Ut with a trace of Dutch stock, 
and died at Saginaw, Michigan, in 1888, at the age of 69 years. 




172 Class of '70. Uxivi:rsitv of Michigan. 



Having' moved with liis parents to Michigan in 1853. 14enrv 
C. Ripley found himself at Sai^inaw in 1856 in what was then a 
new countrw and there his earl}- education was pursued amid the 
difificulties of meatier school facilities and with manv interruptitins- 
Ijy occupation in the lumlier woods and other loi^-ointi- ojieratioris. 
With some final preparation in the high school at Sat^inaw, he was- 
ahle to enter the Freshman class in 1866 at the L'niversit\- of 
Michio-an. In the latter part of his colle_^e course, a circumstance 
occiu'red which probahl}- determined in a lar^e measure his future 
career. Alfred Xoble had an enoagement with Col. h'anjuhar to 
make surveys of a numl)er of harbors on the eastern shore of Lake 
Michigan, and he wanted an assistant on that work. lie hati 
spoken to both Ripley and Mickle about it and each had expressed 
a desire to go. luit he had need for but one. It was therefore 
determined to decide which should go b\- fli])])ing a pennw which 
was done, and the lot fell to Riplev. A term of service w ith the 
government was thus inaugurated, which continued, with some 
slight interruptions, for twent}- years, lie was elected ])oet of his 
class in Sophomore year and treasurer in Senior vear : was a mem- 
l)er of the Philozetian debating clul) and of the .\lpha .\u literary- 
society ; was one of the speakers at the second .S(!])h(imore exhiln- 
tion. 

In "70. following graduation, he was engaged in making' 
government survevs of harbors as assistant to Alfred Xoble. and 
in ofiice work at Milwaukee. Wisconsin, under Col. i'arcjuhar. L'. 
S. engineer. In the spring of "71. he was placed in charge of the 
construction of a crib ])ier and stationed at Muskegon. Michigan, 
and later, in charge of survey party, he made surveys of eleven 
harliors on the eastern shore of Lake Alichigan from Frankfort to 
St. Joseph. In ( )ctoI)er. '71. he went to Louisiana and was en- 
gaged in survev of Rad River in the region of the "(ireat Raft" 
and in olTfice work in connection therewith until 1872. when he 
went to (ialveston. Texas, where he was engaged in a survey of 
that harbor until jul\-. 1873. This work being finished and a 
month's vacation available, he took a tri]) north and visited Michi- 



Di:i'.\Kr.MKXT OF LiTKKATiJUli, Science, AND Aris. 173 

i4:an. Xcw \'()rk and W 'ashin.^tDii. 1). C. and rctnrncd to 'I'exas in 
An^ust to make a snrvc'\- of Pass Cavallo. inlet to Mata^'orda llav. 
TIh' winter of "73-4 ''Vas spent in Xew ( )rlearis. In the si)ring- and 
summer of '74, he was enoaj^ed in a snrve\- for a canal connectin.g- 
the inland waters aloni;- the ( lulf of Mexico from Donaldsonville. 
La., to the Rio (irar.de, Texas, and in a survey of the falls and 
ra])ids in \\ci\ i\iver at .Mexandria. La. 

In .April, 'y^, he went to (lah'eston, where he resided almost 
continuoush- for twent_\--hve years. His ])rofessional ex|)erience 
from '/^ to "(JO was conhried mainl_\- to river and harhor work on 
the (lulf coast. In '75, he commenced a systematic stud_\- of the 
l)h\sical ]jhenomena of that coast relatinii" to the suhject of harlior 
im])rovements. 1'his study was ])articularl\- extensive at ( ialves- 
ton, where ohservati( r.s were continued for many years hy means 
of self-ret^isterins;- a])])aratus and hydrographic surveys made at 
fre(|uent intervals. These ohservations heing carried on during 
the construction of extensive works for the im])r(>vement of the 
harhor, were extremely valuahle professionall_\- and their results 
are recorded in r.umerous official re])orts. a i)ortion of which are 
puhlished in the reports of the chief of engineers, I'. S. A., from 
1875 to i8(jO. and in discussions hefore the American Society of 
Civil I'higineers and puhlished in the transactions of that society 
from 1890 to 1900. 

In 1890 Riplev left the goverr.ment service and o])ened an office 
in ( ialveston for private practice. In ( )ctoher. \)0. he was made 
chief engineer of the Port Ropes Com])any, and made i)lans and 
estimates for the construction of an artihcial entrance to Corpus 
Christi Hav, Texas. In 1892. he was engaged in making surveys 
of the harhors of Coatzacoalcos and Salina Cruz Isthmus of 
Tehuantepec, IMexico. and in making jjlans and estimates for 
their improvement. I'his work involved two trips across the 
Isthnnis on horsehack and an ins])ection of the harhor works at 
\'era Cruz and Tampico, Alexico. In i8(j3, he was engaged as 
eng-ineer for (ialveston County in the construction of a steel high- 
wav hridge across (ialveston West I'.ay. In i8(j4 he was engaged 



174- Class of "70, University of Michigan. 

in making- an investigaticm of the causes of the erosion of the 
Galveston IJeachi. and in making- plans and estimates for its pro- 
tection. Pfe was also a meml)er of a hoard of cng'inecrs to devise 
a plan for the improvement of the entrance to Aransas Pass, 
Texas. The other menihers of that hoard were Geo. Y. Wisner 
and Prof. L. ^[. Hau])t. In 1S95 he and Prof. Idaupt were en- 
gaged as consulting- engineers ft)r the execution of that work. 
He was also chief engineer of the improvement of the mouth of 
lirazos River. Texas, and made surveys, plans and estimates for 
the improvement of the mouth of the Rio Coatzacoalcos and for 
the construction of an artificial harl)or at Salina Cruz, Mexico. 
This work was done for an luiglish syndicate and was entirely 
independent of the work done at the same locality in 1892. lie 
also made an examination of the harhor of \'era Crtiz, Mexico, 
and made a report upon the condition of the works for its im- 
provement and an ojiinion as to the prohahle success of that work, 
in ( )ctoher, '05. he was engaged to make a survey of the 
outer l)ar of Prunswick. (ia.. Avith a view of determining the depth 
and width of channel across said har as a result of work done hy 
]\lr. C. P. (ioodyear. as contractor for the government. The con- 
ditions of the contract were such that '\\v. (Joodyear was to he 
paid onlv for depths secured in a channel 100 feet wide. In this 
case the dei)th had to he secured hy the 30th of Xovemher or the 
pa\-ment for this depth, which was $30,000, would hecome for- 
feited to the government. Idie results of Ripley's survey in- 
dicated that the required channel had heen secured, liefore a cer- 
tificate could he secured, hdwcvcr. this fact had to he determined 
h\' an official surve}- and this was iiumediately asked for hy the 
contractor. The power to make the certificate and determine the 
facts was vested in a hoard coiisistir.g of the superintenden.t of the 
L'. S. coast and geodetic survey and two officers of engineers of 
the arm}-. The official survey was completed and the hoard re- 
fused to make the certificate hecause of insufficient depth. In the 



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meantime kiplex' had watched the pr(is;ress ( f the official survey 
and noted the methods of conductini:^- the work, and when the 
announcement came, he was prepared to demonstrate the inac- 
curac\' of its results. The o])portimity came in the wi.'.tcr of 
1896 and he went ])efore the Rivers and Harhors Coiumittee of 
the House, and the Commerce Committee of the .Senate and made 
his deiuonstration, with the result that Conii^ress authorized the 
payment of the monew and, at the contractor's recjuest. discharo-ed 
the board and a])pointed an officer of the coast and geodetic survey 
to make future determinations of results. To the credit of the 
superintendent of the coast and Ljeodetic survey, who was presi- 
dent of the ])oard, lie it said that he was in favor of having this 
demonstration made to the hoard itself, for. beini;" a civil en- 
gineer, he recognized the possible fallibility of the board, Ijut the 
majority of the board ruled otherwise. The president of the board 
was present when the demonstration was made before the Rivers 
and Harbors Conmiittee and one of the army engineering mem- 
Ijers appeared before that committee in defense of the board's 
results. 

In 1897 I'iipley was engaged in making an exploration on the 
Pacific coast of Mexico in the State of Colima, with a view to 
determine a suitaljle harbor for a I'acitic terminus for the Mexican 
Central Railroad and in making survey plans ar.d estinnates for 
the improvement of Manzanillo Harbor, Alexico. He also made 
an examination of the harbor work at Tampico, Mexico, and re- 
ported upon the condition of the jetties and recommendations as 
to their completion ; also as to the protection of the bank of 
I'anuco River, opposite the city of Tampico. In 1898 he was en- 
gaged as engineering expert in the court martial trial of Capt. O. 
^I. Carter, and in consultation in regard to the improvement of 
the harbor of Manzanillo. Alexico. 

In^ 1899 he was engaged as arbitrator in dispute between the 
city of Galveston and the C/ialveston Sewer Company. In 1900 



176 Class of '70. Uxiveksitv of AIichigan. 



he went to Washinoton. 1). C, to explain to the Rivers and llar- 
l)ors Conmiittee of the House the teehnieal features of tlie I'.runs- 
wiek harl)or improvement, and was afterward en,oa,!L;ed in niaknig- 
surveys and explorations on the Isthmus of Darien for the Isth- 
mian Canal Commission. He spent six months in the wilds of 
that tr<)])ieal eountry, most of the time out of reaeh of cither mail 
or tele,2:raphir eommunieation. Mis report of this work was full 
and complete in every respect and was suhmitted to the Isthmian 
Canal Commission. This work havino- hccn finished in Wash- 
ington, D. C. in Xovemher. ujoo. Rii^ley associated himself with 
Prof. L. M. HaujH in an cttort to secure from C'ong'ress the privi- 
lege of improving" the entrance to .Vransas Pass. Texas. 1)\- a 
method of their own ar.d at a cost to the government of less than 
one-half the estimated cost of the plan of the government en- 
gineers. The opposition of one of the Texas Senators and the 
failure of the River and Harhor Pill ])revented the success of this 
effort. 

]^lr. Ripley received a silver medal from the Paris Pxposition 
of 1900 as colahcrator in an exhihit of a method of improving 
river and harhor entrances. 

In March, lyoi, Ripley moved from Washington to Chicag-o, 
and in August of the same year to Ann Arbor. 

In Xovemher, 1901, Mr. Ivipley was appointed hy the city of 
Cialveston, Texas, as one of a hoard of three civil engineers, Alfred 
Xohle and Cen. Roberts being the other two, to devise a plan for 
jM'otecting the city from future inundations. The board made an 
elaborate repiirt rec(.mmen(ling the construction of a solid cement 
wall some three miles in length and 17 feet in height aI)ove low 
water, the raising- of the grade of the city, and the making of an 
embankment adjacent to the wall, the whole estimated to cost 
about $3,500,000. 

( )n the 8th of September. i(;oo. when the ( ialveston storm was 
raging'. Ripley was on his wa\- from San Miguel lUu' to Panama 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 177 



in a small sailing' vessel, with barely wind enough to give her 
steerage wav. Arriving in Panama on the evening' of the 9th, he 
set sail from Colon for New York on the i ith, without a suspicion 
that anvthing more serious had happened at Galveston than the 
usual ecjuinnxial disturbance. The Panama papers of the 10th 
had announced the fact of a storm raging at Galveston, in which 
the cal)le house had been destroyed and communication inter- 
rupted. The papers of the iith made no mention of the storm 
whatever, and hence, when Ripley arrived in New York on the 
20th, he was wholly unprepared for the news of the awful catas- 
trophe which had occurred. Idie wires to Galveston being over- 
crowded with messages, it was forenoon of the following' dav be- 
fore he could learn of the fate of his family. One son had been 
drowned, his home totally destroyed and the other members of his 
family had barely escaped with their lives. Out of a population 
of less than 40,000, more than 6,000 people perished on that fate- 
ful night ; and out of about 8,000 Imildings, all told in the city, 
4,141 were totally destroyed. 

Ripley is a member of the American Society of Civil En- 
gineers. He was married August 25, 1875, to Miss Nellie Arksey, 
of Ann Arbor. Their children are Herbert Spencer, aged 23 ; 
George Birch, aged 20; Loraine, aged 16; and Racine, aged 7. 
Fred Hilton Arksey died August ist, 1893, at the age of 15 vears 
and 6 months, and Henry Clay, Jr., was lost in the Galveston 
storm of September 8, 1900, at the age of 19 years and 7 months. 
Herbert is attending the University of Michigan in the course of 
civil engineering, Birch is with Marshall Field & Co., in Chicago, 
and I>oraine and Racine are attending the public school in Ann 
Arbor. 



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William Henry Schock, B.S., M.D. 
Plateau, Sevier Co., Utah. 

Was I)uni near Kaston, 
Xorthanipton Co.. l*a., Jan. 21, 
1846. His father was I'liilip H. 
Schock. born in the same county, 
his ancestors coming- from 
Switzerland l)eforc the revolution. 
He was a miller, later a farmer. 
William's mother was Louisa 
Eyer, l)orn in the same county. 
His parents went to northern 
Illinois in '50 and in '51 settled on 
a farm at Prairieville. Lee Co., in 
that state, which was his home 
until the si)rin_g- of '71. He en- 
listed in Co. 1). 140th 111. \'ol. Inf., 
earl}- in '64 and remained in the service about six months. He 
again entered the service by re-enlisting- in Co. D, 34th 111. \'ol. 
Inf., and was mustered out at the close of the war, as a private. 
He is a member of James \\. ]\IcKean Post, Xo. i, C. A. R., Salt 
Lake City, and \\ (i. of Salt Lake Lodge, No. 2, I. O. O. F., but 
now a member of Richtield Lodge, Xo. 2i). The fall term of '65 
and the term following- he attended Cornell College, Alt. \'enon, 
la. He entered the University of Michigan Se])tember, '66, being 
catalogued with the class of '70, but passing all the examinations 
for the Sophomore year, except French, took studies with "69. 
Remained on the farm during the year 1868, returned to the uni- 
versit}- in the fall of that year and fell back into the class of '70, 
with which he was graduated, receiving the degree of B.S. 

In the spring of '71 he started west, intending to locate in 
Nebraska or Kansas and engage in surveying and real estate, but 
finding business dull and having always wanted to see the plains 
and mountains, was soon rolling westward towards them. In 



Detartment of Literature, Science, and Arts. 179 

JNIaw '71, he arrived in "I'inlic Miniii"- ]J)istrict, al)Out 90 miles 
west of south of Salt Lake City. For a few days he held the 
position of engineer on a windlass, he furnishing the motive 
power. Soon became interested in claims, but developed nothing 
of value in 1871. Early in 'yz he happened on something better, 
and a long law suit followed. There were then in the territory 
two sets of officials, one national and the other territorial. A de- 
cision of the territorial supreme court barred the federal officials, 
a decision of the U. S. supreme court barred the territorial officers. 
Each term of court, with their witnesses, the contestants marched 
45 miles up to the judge and then marched down again, no jury. 
After a year and a half a com])romise secured to Mr. Schock the 
larger part of the property in dispute. No vacation was taken l)y 
Mr. Schock until September, '76, wdien a tri]) was made to the 
centennial exposition at Philadelphia. In May, '"]"]. he sold his 
mining interests, and with five others outfitted for a trip, a com- 
fortable rig, a small arsenal, fishing tackle, etc., and started across 
the country. They visited first Fish Lake, 10 miles from Plateau, 
the lake having an elevation of 9,000 feet, the mountains about it 
being a half mile higher, and several miles long. In the brooks 
roaring down to the lake, it took five to ten minutes to get enough 
trout for a meal for the party. ( )ne hundred nnles southwest an- 
other stop was made at Panguitch Lake, a small edition of the 
former. Then to Kaibab Plateau, the grandest part of the (irand 
Canon of the Colorado River. The route then was through Dixie 
in southwestern Ltah, to Pioche and to Los \'egas, after the long- 
est drive without water, 60 miles, then west through Death N'alley, 
across the Sierra Nevadas to San Pternardino, Los Angeles and 
up the coast road to San bTancisco, i ,800 miles, taking four 
months. 

In 1878 he began the study of Medicine in Cincinnati, and re- 
ceived the degree of M.D. at Hahnemann Medical College and 
Hospital of Chicago. Practiced medicine in Salt Lake City until 
in 1884, when failing health, due to army service, took him to the 
ranch which he had taken up some years before, and where he has 



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Class of 70, University of Michigan. 



since l)een living'. For the first few years he cast the only Lihcral 
or Gentile vote in his precinct. In '88 he bronght a carload of 
short-horns from the states, and these, with trotters and pacers, 
have been his favorites. A mining relapse in '89 took him to the 
placers of the Colorado River. Starting just east of the Henry 
Mountains with three companions by lioat, he prospected the river 
for 100 miles, running- 70 rapids. With ranching-, mining and the 
medical practice he can not well escape being busy, there lieing no 
physician south or southeast of his place to the Colorado River. 

Until recent years a Republican, the logic of events has made 
him a Socialist, and his precinct is now Socialistic. He is still an 
old bachelor, Init }et has a glimmer of hope. 



Walter Barlow Stevens, A.M. 
St. Louis, Mo, 

Walter 1). Stevens was born 
July 25, 1848, in Meriden, Conn. 
When he was eight years old 
his parents moved west. Ste- 
vens' boyhood was passed at 
l*eoria. 111., where he prepared 
for college. 

He entered the University of 
Michigan in September, 1866, 
and continued with the class of 
'70 during the four years" 
course, receiving the degree of 
A.I', in June, 1870. He joined 
the IMiilozetian deliating club 
and the Alpha Xu literary so- 
siety. He was elected treasurer of his class in Sophomore year 
and historian in Senior year; was one of the speakers at Junior 
exhibition and also at Commencement. 

Ten days after graduation in '70, he went to St. Louis and 




Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 181 



het;aii work as a ne\v.s])aper reporter on the St. Louis Times. 
He was continuously connected with St. Louis newspapers until 
AIa\-, \i)0\. In 1881 he became City lulitor of the St. Louis 
Cilohe-Democrat and two years later was made staff correspond- 
ent. In 1884 he was sent to Washington and given charge of 
the Globe-Democrat Ikireau. b^or seventeen years Stevens 
passed the sessions of Congress at the National Capital, and Ije- 
tween sessions traveled for the (iUjbe- Democrat as staff corre- 
spondent. His letter writing took him to nearly every state and 
territory of the United States, to ]\Iexico, Cuba, liritish C'olum- 
bia and various ])arts of Canada. He has achieved great success 
as a journalist of wide experience and rare good judgment, and 
enjoys the acquaintance of men of prominence in all parts of the 
country. 

He is married; has no children. 

In May, Kpi, when the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 
Company was formally organized at St. Louis, to hold the 
World's Fair, Stevens was elected Secretary. He had taken a 
dee]) interest in this movement to celebrate the centennial of the 
Purchase, but had contemplated no official connection with it. 
His only ambition was to round out his allotted time for active 
life in newspaper harness. His election to the secretaryship 
was unanimous l)y the 1)oard of ninety-three directors. No in- 
timation that such action was contemplated had reached Stevens, 
who was attending to his newspaper duties in Washington and 
preparing to enter upon an extended journey for the Globe- 
Democrat. A |)osition of trust coiiveved in such a manner was 
not to be declined. His duties in connection with this Exposi- 
tion are exacting, but he is in every way capable of discharging 
them wisely and well. He possesses for this important task 
great erudition, fidelity an.d ])ersistency of purpose and a com- 
prehensive grasp of the objects to be attained. Again the class 
of "70 is to be congratulated U])on being so conspicuously repre- 
sented in this great international enterprise. 



182 Class of 70, University of Michigan. 



Leonard Emiah Stocking, Ph.B., M.D. 
Ag-news, Cal. 

He was Ixirn Decemlier 2, 1846. at Collinsville. X. V. At the 
age of eight years he went to \Msconsin with his fatlier. who was 
a farmer. There he attended district school winters and helped 
at farming- summers. When sixteen years old he attentled Allen's 
Grove Academy and sul)se(|uently entered Bekiit College, l)ut re- 
mained only a short time. After another year's preparation for 
college he entered the L'^niversity of ^Michigan in 1866 with the 
class of "70. He joined the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, the Philo- 
zetian dehating chih, and the Alpha \u literarv societv. 

After graduation in 1870 he took a husiness trip through the 
southern and western states, and in the following- vear took charge 
of his father's farm in Missnuri. He was i)rincipal nf the pul)lic 
schools of Potosi. Mo., in 1872, and of Irondale Academ\ in 1873. 
In 1874 he gave his time chieHy to the study of medicine in St. 
Louis Medical College and in the hospitals in St. Louis. He re- 
ceived his degree of ]\LD. from St. Louis ^^ledical College in 1876 
and commenced practice at Anna, 111. Jrlis al)ilities as a ph\sician 
were at once recognized and the position of physician in the Illinois 
Hospital for the Insane at that iilace was tendcretl to him, which 
he accepted. This position was filled hy him with great satisfac- 
tion until 1890, when he decided to remove to the Pacific coast. 
He therefore resigned his position and went to San Diego, Cal., 
where he had charge of the sanitarium at that place for three years. 
In 1893 he accepted a position on the medical stati" of the State 
Insane Hospital at Agnews, Cal., near San Francisco. He has 
been continuously connected with that institution to the present 
time. September 6. 1876, he married Miss Helen Whitman of 
Watseka, 111., a graduate of Prairie Seminary and principal of the 
high school at Paducah, Ky. Their daughter, Helen M., was born 
in 1884. 

In a recent letter Dr. Stocking says: "Beyond my family, 
there are no associations so dear as those of my college days, and 
I still remember with pleasure our grand reunion of June, 1890. 



DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ArTS. 183 

I want to meet the lioys aii'ain and shall at the next reunion, if 
possihle." He says he keeps open house continualh' f(jr all mem- 
bers of the class of '70. 

Lucius Burrie Swift, Ph.M. 
Indianapolis, Ind. 

Tie was born at Vates. ( )rleans Co., X. Y., July 31, 1844, his 
father, Stephen Swift, Ixmuo- a farmer. He was in the Federal 
army two and a half years, as a ])rivate in the 28th N. Y. Vols, 
lie was twice taken prisoner, the first time in ( ieneral Banks' 
retreat. Was held sixteen weeks, part (jf the time at Lvnchburg", 
\'a.. and the remainder at I'elle Isle. The second time he was 
taken at the Ijattle of Chancellorsville and confined in Libby 
prison, but was released in twelve days. He ])repared for college 
at Medina, X. ^'. He entered the L'niversity of Michigan in 
Sejitemljer. 1866. with the class oi 'yo. He joined the Psi Upsi- 
lon fraternity and the Literary Adelphi. The first two years 
after graduation he studied law in the ofiice of Henry A. Childs. 
district attorney, at Medina, X. Y. He then l)ecame the princi- 
pal of the high school in La I'orte, Ind. After serving one vear 
in this capacity, he was ap])ointed superintendent of schools at 
the same place and continued in this position for six vears. In 
"79 he removed to Indiana]M)lis, and commenced the practice of 
law. 

He was chairman of the Independent Re])ublican Committee 
of Indiana in the campaign of 1884. In Septemljer. 1886, as a 
member of the executive committee of the Indiana Civil Service 
Reform Association, he made a report upon "The Federal Civil 
Service in Indiana since March 4, 1885." This consisted of 
fifty-three closely printed pages and acquired a national noto- 
riety. It is Document X^'o. 2 of the association. He supple- 
mented this in 1888 by a re])ort upon the ln(liana])olis post office 
known as Document Xo. 4. In 1887, I'cfore the House Com- 
mittee of the general assembly, on behalf of the association he 
conducted the investigation of the Indiana insane hospital, the 



184 



Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



time occnpied l)eini;- three weeks, (la\- and evening, the evidence 
taken covering- 1,300 printed pages. In 1888 he took the stump 
against Cleveland and made speeches throughout the state, con- 
fining himself to the one suhject of the mismanagement of the 
civil service. Later he hecame President of the Indiana Civil 
Service Reform Association. He made an address before the 
Union League Club of Chicago at the opening of the campaign 
of 1888. which was published in full in the Inter Ocean. He 
edited the Civil Service Chronicle, a monthly publication at In- 
dianapolis. 

Air. Swift has been in active practice of law at Indianapolis 
continuously since 1870, and is ranked among the leaders of the 
profession at that place. 

Swift was married at Aledina, X. "N'., Jul\- 6, "76, to ^Nliss 
Marv Ella Lx'on. 



Rufus Hildreth Thayer, A.M., LL.B. 

Washington, D. C. 

He was l)orn at Northville, 
Wayne County, Alichigan, June 
29, i84(j, on a farm, and lived 
there all through his bovhood. 
-Attended a country district 
school tuitil 1864, when he en- 
tered the high school at Ann Ar- 
bor and remained two vears, 
graduating in June, 1866, with 
Darrow, Lovell, C'hristA', Coolev, 
Haven and others. In the sum- 
mer of 1866, be remained in Ann 
Arbor, and, with Darrow and 
other of the boys, had the pleas- 
ure and advantage of personal 

instruction by Prof. IJoise, which smoothed his wav perceptibly 

through the terrors of entrance examinations. 




DepartmexNtt of LiTEKxvruRi':, Science, and Arts. 185 



He entered the L'niversity of AIichi,L;an in the fall of 1866, 
with the elass of "70. He joined the Ali)ha Delta Phi fraternity, 
the Philozctian dehatini^- clnh and the Alpha Xn literary society. 
He was secretary of his class in hVeshman year and magistcr 
cdcndi in Senior year. Was one of the speakers at the second 
Sophomore exhihition and also at the Junior exhibition. At opening 
of the college year in 1870, he accepted an appointment as as- 
sistant librarian of the imiversity. under Professor Tenbrook, in 
succession to Air. Davis who retired on account of ill health, and 
remained until March, 1871, when Mr. Davis returned with 
restored health and resumed his duties in the library at Idiayer's 
request, as he was longing for a change of air and new fields. 

In the spring of 1871, Thayer visited Washington. D. C, 
where he had relatives residing, and found immediate employment 
as an assistant in the library of Congress, under ]\Ir. A. R. Spof- 
ford, \vho was for many years the head of that great institution. 
Remained in the librarv only about three months, as he was un- 
willing to give the assurance required by Mr. Spofford. that he 
would remain for at least five years. Secured a clerkship in the 
Treasury Department and in the autumn of 1871 entered the 
law school of Columbian Cniversit}- at Washington. In 1873, 
was admitted to the bar in W^ashington and in June of the same 
year was graduated from the Law School. 

In the same year he was transferred from his clerical position 
and appointed as law officer of the office of the supervising archi- 
tect of the Treasury, and remained in that office until 188;'), when 
lie resigned and entered upon the practice of law, in partnership 
with Fred C. Coldren, of the class of 1882, U. of M., at Washing- 
ton, and has been coiuinuously engaged in the practice of law, 
in Washington, since that date. For the last ten }-ears the firm 
has been Thayer & Rankin, his i)artner being John M. Rankin, a 
graduate of Centre College, Kentucky, and associated with the 
firm is Walter F. Rogers, who is widely known as a patent law- 
yer and an authority on patent law. The firm has for manv 
vears given special attention to land and mining law and litiga- 



186 Class of '70, Uni\ersitv of Michigan. 

tion. He spent the winter of 1875-6, in Europe, havinj;- l)een 
sent there liy the (ujvernnient in connection with the refmnhnq" 
of the national delit. Meniiiii^- and Thayer hved toj^ether in 
\\'ashinii'ton for nian\- years, until Ideniini^- married. Since lea\- 
ing- g-overnnient service he has hectnne locall}- identified to some 
extent with the municipal affairs of the District of Columhia. 
He was for several years a memher of the school hoard of Wash- 
ington and also judge achdcate general of the militia of the District 
of Columhia. He is now a memher of the hoard of trustees of 
the puhlic lihrary at Washington, for which a $350,000.00 huild- 
ing is now in course of construction, due to the generositv of 
Andrew Carnegie. Each of these otfices were appointive and with- 
out emolument. 

He has heen for many years a memher of the C'dsukv; L'luh, 
one of the leading cluhs of Washington, founded and maiiUained 
as distinctively scientitic, literar\- and artistic, and which is lo- 
cated in what is known as the "Dolly Aladison" house, it having 
heen the home of the widow of President Madison for the last 
twenty-live years of her life. He is now the president of that 
cluh and says that he ajjin-eciates that distinctic)n as an honor 
greatly heyond his deserts, and as prohalih' the greatest he is 
ever likely to have conferred on him. 

Thayer is unmarried. He and Michael A. Meyendorft' are 
believed to he the sole representatives of celibacy remaining in 
the class list. TA'idently the "judge" was ttio large and ".Mike" 
was too small. P'ach deserved a better fate. 

l')y reason of his location in Washington, Tha\er has, from 
time to time, met a great many of the boys on their iiccasional 
pilgrimages to the caj^itol city, and says that his heart is still warm 
with aff'ection for the ( ^Id Class and full of tender memories of 
the old days; that his pride in the ( )ld (_"lass has betMi strongly 
emphasized by the opportunities given him to observe the high 
quality of public service rendered by members of "70, who in 
natural order have been summonetl to high public office; that he 
has seen Dav, Noble. ]\loses. Penfield and luaker tilling admir- 



Department oe Literature, Science, anu Arts. 187 



al)lv C()ns])icu()ns places and rcllcctiiiLi: .threat lioiinr on the class 
as well as themselves. lie ()1)ser\es that evidence has not been 
wanting that a high general average of attainment and useful- 
ness has been maintained by the class as a whole, but that we 
should be grateful that great oi)])ortunities liave come to several 
of the boys and been fully met. Thayer further states that he 
feels that his certificate of this fact may be of value in the general 
round-up of vital statistics of the class, and he gives it cheerfully 
and in enii)hatic terms. His address is Atlantic I'.uilding, Wash- 
iupton, 1). (. . 



Alexander Thomson, B.S., LL.B. 
Clackamas, Oregon. 

The subject of this sketch 
was born on Griggsville Prairie 
in I'ike County, Illinois, May 
2(1, 1844. His father, William 
Thomson, first saw the light on 
a farm near Wheeling, \irginia. 
April 17, 1818, and was l)y oc- 
cupation a farmer. In 1836, he 
removed to Illinois and was en- 
gaged in farming until his death, 
which occurred on his farm at 
Verona in that state, on l^ecem- 
ber 7th, 1900, after an illness of 
only about 24 hours, aged 82. 
The maiden name of Alexand- 
er's mother was Sarah Jane Gilbreath. Her parents were from 
Connecticut and located in Illinois, where they died, leaving two 
daughters, Sarah Jane, aged 7, and her sister aged 5, to be taken 
,care of by strangers. Sarah Jane was adopted into the family 
of James McWilliams where she lived until married to William 
Thomson. She died when Alexander was onlv six vears of age. 




188 Class of '70, Uni\-ersitv of Michigan. 

near Wheeling, \'a., on the farm where Alexander's father was 
horn. She had l^een sick for several years with consinnption 
and was taken to \ irginia in hopes that a change of climate 
would give relief, hut the fatal disease soon terminated her life. 
After his mother's death Alexander returned to Griggsville, 
Illinois, with his father who, after a lapse of ahout four vears, 
married a second time and settled in (irundy County, near \'e- 
rona. The fruits of this union were three daughters, all of whom 
are living, so that, as Alexander says, he "has one and one-half 
sisters, that is three half-sisters." After his return from A'irginia 
he made his home with James AlcWilliams for two years, then 
with Jerome Ferry for several months and then with Thomas 
^Miller. After his father's second marriage Alexander went with 
him to Grundy County and attended public school in Pike and 
Grimdy counties. When the great war for the Union broke 
out Alexander manifested that loyalty and steadfastness which 
have ever Ijeen distinguishing traits in his character, and enlisted 
September 16, 1862, in Henshaw's Illinois Battery, which was 
assigned to the 23d Army Corps, and found service in Kentucky 
and Tennessee. His command took part in the chase after Alor- 
gan in 1863, and in the engagement with the forces under Long- 
street at Campbells station near Knoxville, and withstood a siege 
of twenty days in Kno.xville. He served in the army until the 
close of the war when he was mustered out July 25th, 1865. He 
then entered (jrand Prairie Seminary at (Jnarga, Ilk, to prepare 
for entering the L^niversity of Alichigan, but, he says that, after 
a time "the faculty took the lilierty of disagreeing with se\ eral of 
us }otmg men with regard to the management of the seminary, 
and we departed never to return as students unless the faculty 
would retract what they had said, which they never did." He 
finished his school year at ( )narga Institute and entered the Uni- 
versity of ^Michigan with the class in September, 1866. He was 
present at everv recitation of his class during the four years' 
course, which cannot be said of any other member. He was a 
member of the Philozetian debatinf;- club and of the Literarv 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 189 

Adelplii : was one of the speakers at the secoiul Sophomore ex- 
hibition ; was elected class Seer in the Junior year and presented 
the medal to P. H. P.nmpus on Class Day, 1870. After beinq- 
graduated from the literary department with the class of "70, he 
entered the law dci)artment in the fall of the same year, and in 
1872 received his degree of LL.B. His father, at that time, being- 
very sick, Mr. Thomson returned to his home in Illinois and 
managed his father's farm for one year. 

In 1873 he determined to cast his lot in the western country 
and passing through Chicago, where he met classmates Maltman 
and Rush, he went directly to Oregon. He located in Clack- 
amas Count}' where he has lived ever since. He has been en- 
gaged in teaching part of the time. In 1884 he was elected as a 
Republican to represent his district in the. state legislature and 
served for two terms, having been re-elected by a good majority. 
In 1888 the people of his county elected him county superintend- 
ent of schools for two years, and in 1890 re-elected him for two 
years more by a majority of 800 votes, his Repul:)lican successor 
getting a majority of only 27 votes. During this time he had 
106 schools, numliering over 6,000 pupils, under his supervision. 

y\r. Thomson was married September 22, 1875. to Sarah J- 
Almendin.ger, of Ann Arbor, Mich. Their son, Milo ^I.. was 
born June 10, 1877. Roy M. was born April 1st, 1879, and 
Cora ]\I. was born h^liruary 9th, 1884. They had the misfortune 
of losing their son Roy in 1890. He was kicked by a horse and 
from the elTects of the injury he received died July 13th of that 
vear. ^ililo passed through the public schools at Clackamas and 
one year in the high school in Oregon City. He is now employed 
in a state lish culture establishment hatching salmon on the Ump- 
qua river in southern Oregon. Their daughter Cora passed 
through the grades of the pu1)lic schools and one year at Oregon 
City high school, and then entered Portland high school, from 
which she was graduated in June, 1901, at the age of 17. 

Mr. Thomson has been in good health most of the time since 
leaving the university. In 1898 he had what the doctor called 



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Class of 70, Uxiversitv of Michigan. 



a slight stroke of apoplex}-, l)ut he has recovered and apiK^ars to 
be taking the world easy and is full of his old-time cheerfulness. 
He is a member of the G. A. R., and in politics he is a conserva- 
tive Republican. He has not seen any member of the class since 
he went to Oregon, in 1873, but says that he has a warm place 
in his heart for all of his old classmates and cordiallv invites 
them to share in the hospitalities of his home whenever in his 
locality. His address is Clackamas, Oregon. 



Orlando La Fayette Tindall, A.M., B.D. 
Zion City, Lake Co., III. 

Was born at South Grove. 
DeKalb County, Illinois, No- 
vember 25, 1847. His father 
was Jesse Tindall, born in New 
Jersey, of English descent ; mar- 
ried ]\lary Barlier, whose birth- 
place was New York State. 
Their son, (Jrlando L., lived 
\vith them on a farm during his 
youth. h>om his early child- 
hood he has labored under the 
disadvantages of having a par- 
tially paral}zed arm. His early 
education was acquired in an old 
log school house situated in a 
beautiful grove, one mile from his home, where, he says, shoes 
and stockings were out of style after about the first of April. 
His iiiiilcrsfaiidiiig, therefore, expanded freely, antl, being of a 
studious disposition, he developed an ability to enter Beloit Col- 
lege, Beloit, Wis., at the age of sixteen. He remained here, first 
in the preparatory department and afterwards in the College 
classical course, until 1868, when he entered the University of 




DliPARTMENT OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ArTS. 191 

Michigan with the class (if "70. ,\t IJeloit he was fortunate to 
l)e under the instruction of those ahle and well-known instructors, 
Emerson and Porter, who have only recently died at a very ad- 
vanced age. This was a strict Congregational school. The 
l)Ovs ( no girls then ) were compelled to go to chapel every morn- 
ing, failing" which, their college life was in peril. The same 
danger followed heing ahsent from church Simday mornings or 
from Prex's Sunday afternoon seruKju. If to this cause can be 
traced the reason for j\lr. Tindall's leaving Beloit and joining 
the class of "70 of the University of Michigan, every member of 
this class has good cause for rejoicing over the strictness of the 
discipline at Peloit. In college he was a member of the Literary 
Adelphi. Mr. Tindall completed his course and was graduated 
with "70. He then returned to his home uncertain as to his 
future, tie thought of taking up the profession of the law, but 
hesitated, yet he says that he "still ])elieves that it is possible for 
a lawver to l>e saved, and that it is not harder for him to enter 
the Kingdom than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle." 
However the ministr\- kicked the beam, and he entered Union 
Theological Seminary, Chicago, in the fall of 1870. Pie went 
thoroughly to work and investigated church matters and ques- 
tions, expecting to follow the light as it came to him. He re- 
mained at the seminary one year, but in the meantime united 
Avith the M. E. Church. Dr. Charles H. Fowler (now Pishop ) 
was pastor. Mr. Tindall discarded the doctrine of election and 
predestination and adhered to that of the freedom of the will. 
In the fall of 1871 he entered the Garrett Biblical Institute at 
Evanston, a Methodist school, and was graduated there in the 
summer of 1873, with the degree of B.D. He also received the 
degree of A.M. from the iTiiversity of Michigan. 

Mr. Tindall commenced his labors in the ministry in a sul)- 
urban town of Chicago, speaking without notes — a practice which 
he has continued to the present time. He then preached at 
Prairie du Chien, Wis., for six months. In the fall of 1873, he 
joined the Illinois Conference and began his regular work of 
circuit riding, with four appointments among the farmers. As 
a result of his effective work, in the fall of 1874 and winter 
of 1874-5, about one hundred converts joined the church. 



192 Class of 70, University of Michigan. 



On July 4. 1S76, ]\fr. Tindall was inarriecl to Miss Anna E. 
Harvey, of Jacksonville. 111. She was a graduate from the Illi- 
nois Female College at Jacksonville. Their onlv child. Alary 
Evangeline, was liorn July 2g. ^^yy. In 1879, Airs. Tindall's 
health requiring a change of climate. Air. Tindall took his family 
to Colorado. They passed the summer at Puehlo, Colorado 
Springs and Denver. Airs. Tindall's health improved for a 
time, but on their return to Illinois, in the fall, she failed rapidly 
and on the 9th of December, 1879, passed to the better world. 
Air. Tindall's health being somewhat broken, he started in June, 
1880, for London, hoping that a change of scenes and needed 
rest would fully restore it to its former vigor. He made a il\ing 
trip through parts of Europe. Crossed the Xorth Sea and went 
up through Holland, visited Cologne, spent a delightful da\- on 
the Rhine with its picturesque scenery and towering castles ; 
went down through the Black Forest of Germany and crossed the 
Alps in a diligence drawn by seven horses. He visited Alilan, 
A'enice, Florence and Rome, and says that he had an opportunity 
to kiss the toes of St. Peter in the great cathedral. He returned 
via Turin, Genoa, St. Gothard Pass, Lake Geneva and Paris. 
Msited friends in the Xorth of Wales ; visited London a second 
time, heard Gladstone speak in the House of Commons, and after 
seeing the great sights of the great city, sailed for home, arriv- 
ing in the latter part of August, 1880. He again took up the 
ministry for about three years, but ill health constrained him to 
seek a change in the West. He determined to and did settle on 
a beautiful farm of 320 acres, two and one-half miles from the 
historical city of Lawrence. This farm was formerly owned by 
Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island. Here were bred many fine 
and valuable horses. Air. Tindall remained on this farm eight 
pleasant and profitable years, raising grain and stock. 

He was married Alarch 2, 1884, to Aliss Xancy Havs Price, 
of Carrollton, 111. In 1890, while spending a vacation at Alin- 
neapolis, Alinn., Air. Tindall and his wife became acquainted 
with Rev. John Alex. Dowie and attended a "Divine Healing 
Alission" for three weeks, which he was conducting. They be- 
came very nmch interested in Dowie and his teachings. From 
that time to the present both Air. and Airs. Tindall have been 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 193 



strong' supporters of the faith he taught. In 1897 they severed 
tlieir connection with tlie AL E. Church and Air. Tindall was or- 
dained an elder in the "Christian Cathohc Church in Zion." He 
spent a year in tliat ministry at Lawrence. l)Ut in the fah of 1898, 
he moved to Chicago, and in Fehruary. 1899, he was appointed 
Principal of the Alinisterial Training" Department in Zion Col- 
lege, which had just been opened by Rev. John Alex. Dowie. 
Tindall still tills that position. He has also been professor of 
Greek in the college. 

( )n December 23d. i8y8, his only daughter, Alary Evangeline, 
twenty years of age, was taken to the better land. She had just 
entered the Junior year in Kansas L'niversity at Lawrence. It is 
believed that overwork in her studies l)rought on the trouble that 
terminated a beautiful and promising life. 



Tames Fisher Tweedy, A.B. 
New York City. 

James Fisher Tweedy, the 
oldest son of John H. Tweedv, 
of Danbury, Conn., and Anna 
Marion Eisher, of iJoston, 
A/Iass.. was l)orn in Alihvaukee, 
Wisconsin, on the 20th of 
ATarch. 1849. His father, born 
in Danbury. in 1814. was of 
Scotch-Irish ancestry. He stud- 
ied in the village schools to pre- 
pare for Yale, where he was 
graduated from the academic 
and legal departments. After 
graduation in 1836, he traveled 
through the West, . and iinally 
settled in Alihvaukee, where he engaged in the practice of law, 
and entered actively into local and state politics. In 1848 he 




194 Class of 70, University of Michigan. 

was elected territorial delegate to Washington, and there was 
intluential in procuring- the admission of \\'isconsin into the rank 
of statehood. He died Xovemlier 12th. 190 1, at his home in 
Milwaukee. 

James was educated at the private and pul)lic schools of Mil- 
waukee till his fifteenth year, when he was sent to Phillips Exeter 
Academy at Exeter, X. H., to prepare for Harvard College. 

On completing- the Exeter course, he was induced l\v western 
friends to enter the University of Michigan instead of an Eastern 
institution, which he did in Septemher, 1866, with the class of '70. 
During- the Freshman and first half of the Sophomore vear at Ann 
Arhor he lived at the Mott hotise, situated opposite the present 
gymnasium, then the hall held. There lived the (Juarles hrothers, 
Joseph, now senator from \\'isconsin, and Charles, a prominent 
lawyer ; the former in the law school and the latter in the aca- 
demic department, class of '68. There, too, lived Henry Durkee 
and H. Willie Lord, royal hosts to Freshman eyes ; W. R. Day 
and Peter King of '70; James Freeman Clark, nephew of the 
noted Unitarian divine of that name, and Edward Cramer, now 
otn- consul at Florence. In the latter part of his Freshman vear 
he joined the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, of which many in the 
house were memhers. In that house our now famous classmate, 
quondam Secretary of State, gave evidence of that talent for 
di])lomacy, which in later years stood us in such stead against 
Spain, when we grahhed the Philippines and donned the title of 
a world power. For then with others he planned that memor- 
a1)le court of incjuiry, whose place of nieeting is well known to 
"70, and whose exit on a certain occasion was noted more for its 
celerit}- than dignity. 

In January of the Sophomore year Tweedy moved to Mr. 
r>ird"s house on State St., where the stern eves of John C. Free- 
man, now professor of Wisconsin University, and Alhert Patten- 
gill, Seniors and roommates, restrained somewhat any too marked 
Sophomoric propensities. Then "Binders" was a great tempta- 
tion, where howls were filled and toasts were drunk, and whence 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 195 



manv a lad returned to l)ed a wee liit frisky. Then nian\- a .q,"ate 
Avas divorced from hinge, and many a liouseholder did rue the 
day when Sophomores went out to play. Albert Weisbrod 
was Tweedy's roommate for half a year at Bird's house. He was 
the Aoungest of the class, and later made an enviable reputation 
as a lawver, and was an active citizen of ( )shkosh, his native 
town, when death called him. Two delightful weeks were spent 
with him with gun and canoe among- the bayous of the Wolf 
river in upper Wisconsin, where game was plenty and nature 
but little disturbed by human habitations. 

In the Junior year the ladies began to play a part. Hops 
were in order. Careful toilets were made, and cut of coat was 
most important. In classroom Porter's ponderous sentences and 
Michell's glowing- pictures held the student's attention, unless, 
sad to relate, a too inviting- sun tempted some out of the window 
that stood so conveniently behind the partition. Then Frieze's 
kindly countenance looked on him, and gave to Horace a tone 
and color perhaps never dreamed of by the poet himself. Then 
ideals were clothed with angels" wings and prose was poetry. 
Days all too short and year too soon ended. 

In the Senior year Tweedy roomed with Andrew J. ]\Iack at 
Mr. Thayer's, on Huron St. Binder's course in physics was then a 
popular one with some of the class, and many hours and much 
midnight oil were spent in serious contemplation of the problems 
of that intricate science. Especial attention Avas given to the 
laws of gravity and upheaval, a branch of the science attempted 
only by a chosen few, whose capacity was found to be adapted to 
so profound a sul)iect. 

Who can fittingly relate the story of the last supper at Hang- 
stefer's and the farewells at the depot? Not even the famous 
philosopher of clothes Avould attempt to picture those scenes. 

After graduation Tweedy joined a party formed by Alfred 
Noble, to survey the harbors of Cheboygan and Alpena in Michi- 
gan, which returned to Milwaukee in late fall to map out the 
work done in the field. Influenced by that experience, he re- 



196 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

turned to Ann Arl)or in Septenil:)er. "71, and took a partial course 
in engineering", rooming with (ieo. W. Peckham, of ^Milwaukee, 
now librarian of the ]Milwaukee Public Lil)rary, who was taking 
a course in the medical school. Day had also returned to take 
a course in law and manage the law library. Then was formed 
a Radical Club, which met frecjuently in their rooms to discuss 
theories of future life, salvation and kindred su])jects, and had 
one memoralile meeting by invitation, at Dr. C'ocker's house, 
when it was hoped the good doctor would settle beyond doubt 
certain perplexing questions as to the hereafter. Day, I'urton. 
Peckham and Alice P>elcher were members, and animated talkers 
at the meetings. 

The offer of work with an engineering j^arty sent cnit b}' the 
C, M. & St. P. R. R. to survey the line between Milwaukee and 
Chicago, caused l\vee(ly to cut short his course in engineering 
and enter the emj)loy of that company in h>bruary, '^2. In 
September of the same year he married ^lary Alice Belcher, of 
]\Iilwaukee. 

The first few nu)nths of 'y^, were spent in Canton, Ohio, where 
\\'illiam McKinley and William R. Day were ])leading some of 
their first law cases, and laying the foundation of statesmanship, 
now known throughout the world. 

In May he returned to Milwaukee and entered the ofiice of 
Conro, Starke Co., contractors, for whom he drew the plans for 
the first dry dock built there. With them he remained till 1878, 
when he took an active interest in the banking and brokerage 
business which he had started with Mr. lielcher in 1875. 

In ]88t he joined the Xew York Stock Exchange and moved 
with his family to Xew York City, leaving his brother, John H. 
Tweed}', Jr., to manage the business in Alilwaukee. At the ex- 
piration of the copartnership, in i888. Tweedy retired from busi- 
ness and devoted much of his time to recovering health, much 
broken by fifteen years of office life. Soon after he came into 
the possession of an abandoned X'ew Hampshire farm, situated 
among the foothills of the White mountains and twelve miles 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 197 



from anv railroad. There he s])ent most of each year, relurning 
to Xevv York in the late fall. I'here he farmed a little, followed 
the mountain brook tO' cast for trout, or floated on the slightly 
ruffled waters of some spring-fed lake to try his skill with bass 
or pickerel. Nature proved to be a good doctor. In January, 
1899, opportunity offered to tr\' business again and he entered 
the stock exchange office of Theo. Wilson, now Wilson, Watson 
& Herbert, where he can be found at the present time. 

He has five children, four sons and one daughter, in the order 
of their birth, Arthur William, born August i8th, 1873; Mar- 
garet Hunter, born April 16th, ]875; Richard, l)orn November 
i6th, 1876; James Ijelcher, born 3>Iay 2(1, 1878; and Alfred, 
born February 24th, 1880. Of these the two older sons are 
devoted to art, the daughter is living at home, James is studying 
law in Columbia and Alfred is at Yale Sheffield School. 

In national politics he has been an independent, voting with 
the Democrats for Cleveland and with the Republicans for Mc- 
Kinley, while in city matters he has been invariably against the 
bosses, and alth(jugh most of the time on the losing side, feels at 
last rewarded In- this victorv for good government under the 
banner of Seth Low. 

His present residence is Spuyten Duyvil, New York City, the 
most picturesque spot in greater New York. His Imsiness ad- 
dress is No. 6 Wall Street. 



Peter Voorheis, A.B. 

Died at Grand Rapids, Mich., December M, J 890. 

Was born September 11, 1843, ^^ White Lake, Oakland Co., 
Michigan. His father's name was Sebring Voorheis. He lived 
on his father's farm and attended district school until he com- 
menced prc])aration for college at ^"psilanti, Vlich. He entered 
the l^niversity of Michigan in September, 1866, with the class of 
'70. Joined the Philozetian debating clul) and the Alpha Nu 
literary society. Was one of the speakers at the first Sophoiuore 



198 Class of '70, Univp:rsity of Michigan. 



exliiliition. He entered upon the study of law ininiediatelv after 
graduation, with Crawfoot & Brewer, in Pontiac, Mich., and re- 
mained with them until ^^lay, '71. He then went to Holland, 
Mich., and took charge of the L'. S. harhor improvements at that 
place until Xovemher. 'yi. During the following winter he at- 
tended the law department of the U. of i\I., and in April, 'y2, 
was admitted to the Michigan l)ar at Pontiac. S(ion thereafter 
he settled at Grand Rapids, Mich., and commenced the practice 
of his profession, and made that [jlace his home. In '82, he 
added to his law practice the husiness of tire insurance and loans, 
and at the time of his death his husiness was yielding a fair in- 
come. 

He was married August, '76, to Cornelia A. Woodward, of 
Grand Rapids, Mich. Children : Leroy Woodward, Clarence 
Sehring, Frederick Woodward. ( hie child died in infanc\ . 

Peter \'oorheis died suddenly of heart disease, Decemher 17, 
'90, at Grand Rapids, while engaged in the trial of a law suit. 
He was waiting for the opposing counsel to state an olyjection 
when he was seen to hend forward over the tahle at which he 
was standing and, before any one cotild reach him, expired with- 
out a gasp or groan. His wife happened to be in the court room 
at the time and noticed that his voice trembled slightly and that 
a change came over his countenance. As he leaned forward upon 
the table she hastened to his side, but the vital spark had fled. 
He was generous hearted, genial and kind, and will l)e remem- 
bered for his many noble ciualities of manhood. He was a mem- 
ber of the Congregational church. 

Mrs. Cornelia A. A'oorheis, widow of Peter Wiorheis, died 
July 9, 1900, leaving her surviving the above named three chil- 
dren. Leroy W'., now about 23 years old, was gracltiated from 
the high school at Grand Rapids, ]\{ich., in 1897, and entered the 
University of Michigan the same year, remaining" one year. In 
the fall of 1898, he was employed by a Cincinnati house, The 
Globe-Wernicke Co., as traveling agent. He is still so employed, 
covering the States of ]\IichiQan, Indiana and Illinois in his 



DliPARTMEiNT OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ArTS. 199 

travels. Clarence S., aliont 20 years of age, was graduated from 
the high school at (llrand Rapids. After the death of his mother 
he carried on the insurance husiness estahlished b}- his father, 
until he found an opportunity to sell out, and was then employed 
])y the National lliscuit Co. at Grand Rapids, ]\lich., \\ith which 
compau}- he is still connected. Frederick W., about 14 years old, 
is now in the high school at Grand Rapids, energetic and inde- 
pendent, like his father. These boys are all doing well and are 
worthy successors of the genial Peter A'oorheis of the class of '70. 



William James Waters, C.E. 
Whereabouts Unknown. 

He was born September 10, 1841, at the village of Rye, N. 
Y. His father, William Waters, was a farmer. His mother's 
maiden name was Alary Ann Smythe. He learned the printers 
trade. W^as of a roving disposition and resided at diiTerent times 
at Xew York City, Hudson, X. Y.. Xew Bedford, Cambridge and 
Boston, Mass. He traveled in Central and South America, sailed 
along the Atlantic coast as well as the Pacific coast of those 
countries and at several points journeyed into the interior. His 
final preparation for college was made at Exeter, X. H. Entered 
Harvard College, but remained only one year. He then entered 
the Cniversitv of Alichigan in 1S66 and completed his course 
with the class of '70. He was a member of the Masonic order. 
After receiving his degree he was engaged for two or three }-ears 
in making maps of cities of Michigan, \\'isconsin and Iowa. 
About 1875 he was married at Columbus, ( )., and was employed 
there as superintendent of the ( )hio Bent Woodworks until 1877, 
when he left there and no definite trace of him since that time 
can be ascertained. ITis business affairs are said to have l)een 
satisfactory and no reason can be assigned for his sudden dis- 
appearance. 

In the last letter received from Air. W. C. Willits, written Octo- 
ber 7, ujoi, he says of Air. Waters: 



200 



Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



"I do not think him dead. I do know though, that he loft 
Columhus, ()., (where he was superintendent of the Ohio Bent 
Woodworks) without notice to any one. What his trouhles 
were and why he went away so unceremoniously I do not know. 
Dr. Travett was owner of the woodworks. I have been 
to Columlms, and permit me to say that his relations to 
the woodworks was straight, without any crookedness. 
Waters was the embudiment of honor. He was of a roving dis- 
position. Something seemed tO' him unendural)le, and as a 
strange place had no terrors for him, l)ut rather a charm, he went 
away. He was seen in Texas for about a year after his de- 
parture, since when all trace has been lost."" 

L.ate efforts have been made to learn something of him by 
correspondence with several persons at Columbus, ()., but iioth- 
ing new has been developed. 



Oliver Hart Wattles, B.S. 

Lapeer, Mich. 

He was born in Lapeer, La- 
peer County, jMichigan, Janu- 
ary 29, 1850. His father. John 
M. \\'attles, born ]\Iarch 20, 
1819. in I Bradford County, Pa., 
lost bis parents when he was 
onh- six years old and from Ijoy- 
buiid was (ibligetl to make his 
own way in the world. He 
achieved distinction as an al)le 
law_\er and successful lianker. 
He established the l)anking 
house of J. M. Wattles & Co., of 
Lapeer, Mich., which, after his 
death. Septemljer 20, 1893. ^^'^^ 
continued by his son, Oliver H. Wattles, the subject of this 
sketch. Oliver's mother, Phila A. Hart, was born in Connecti- 




Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 201 



cut, F'el)ruarv 6th, 1824, one of twelve children. Her family re- 
moved to Lapeer County, Alich., in 1831. She was known as a 
lady of culture and refinement, and her services as a teacher were 
in c^ood demand. She was married to John At. Wattles January 
1st, 1847. •'^^'"-^ "^^i^*^^ ii"^ January, 1882. 

(31iver H. attended district school until he was i^ years old, 
Avhen, like some other bovs with a desire to see the world, he ran 
away from home and remained away one year. We next hear of 
him as a student for two terms in Detroit and then one term in 
the union school at Ann Arl)or, then entering the L'niversity of 
Michigan in the fall of 1866. with the class of '70. He was a 
niemlier of the Philozetian tlehating club. Although he ex- 
pressed regret that he had not had a better preparation for col- 
lege, yet he stood well in his class, and on graduation was well 
prepared for the business he has given his life to — that of Ijanking, 
first as a partner with his father and after his death as his suc- 
<:essor. His travels have taken him to Philadelphia, Xew York. 
Washington, Chicago, St. Paul and other cities of the I'nited 
States. For ten years, 1874 to 1884, he had the honor of rep- 
resenting his ward as an alderman and during that time he exerted 
his influence in favor of good government and of better educa- 
tional facilities for the youth of his native city. He has declined 
to take any other office, giving his entire attention to l^anking. 
He enjoys the confiden.ce and respect of his friends and acquaint- 
ances and of the business commiuiitx' in which he lives. 



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Albert William Weisbrod, A.B. 
Died at Oshkosh, Wis., April 18, J 892. 

He was Ijorn in the City of 
( )shkosh, Wisconsin, on the 4th 
(lay of ( )ctoher, 1851. He died in 
the city of his hirth, on the i8th 
da}- of April, 1892, after an ill- 
ness of ahont ten days, of acute 
kidney disease, which was su- 
perinduced l)y the nervous ten- 
sion to which he was subjected 
on account of the sudden death 
of his younger brother, Otto, 
who died five days before him, 
at the age of 28 years. 

His father, Charles August 
Weisbrod, was born at Zim- 
mern, Germany; was educated as a lawyer, antl married Elise 
Frances Goetz, of Zininiern, her native city; the issue of the 
marriage being seven children, four daughters and three sons ; of 
the latter, .Albert being the eldest. The parents came to America 
in the year 1848, and settled at the city of Oshkosh. where the 
father commenced the practice of the law, which he continued 
in the same place up to the time of his death. Throughout his 
career the elder Weisbrod held a high position at the bar of his 
county and was one of the leading progressive spirits of his 
time. He died Alay 21, 1876, eight da}'S after the death of his 
third daughter. Mrs. Weisbrod followed him on the iith of 
October, 1897. 

Albert was a very promising son, and was not only given 
such advantages as the local schools afforded, but his father 
having decided to make a lawyer of him. sent him to the Uni- 
versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he remained from 1866 
to the time of his graduation in 1870. He went to Europe early 



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in 1871 and attended the University of Heidelliei'L;" for six months, 
taking- the law lectures only. His father was tenacious regard- 
ing- his retention of the (jernian language and his thorough 
equipment in that sphere. He continued his studies at the Leip- 
zig I^nivcrsitv, which he attended until late in 1872, linishing- 
his work at the llerlin University, where he gave especial atten- 
tion to the law lectures, alth.ough he was a member of the gen- 
eral course. 

Leaving Europe he came home to Oshkosh in July, 1873, and 
at once entered upon the practice of the law in the office of his 
father and Chas. W. Felker. who^ were partners. Albert was 
soon admitted to the firm. Soon after his father's death, he 
formed a copartnership with ITenry 1j . Harshaw (late State 
Treasurer of Wisconsin), to which firm Chas. Nevitt was ad- 
mitted in 1884, the partnership continuing until 1889. Later the 
firm name was Weisbrod. Harshaw & Thompson, the latter, A. 
E. Thompson (formerly of Princeton, Wisconsin), being at the 
time assistant L'nited States district attorney for eastern district 
of Wisconsin. In all of the firms, after the death of his father, 
Air. Weisbrod was the acknowledged senior member, although 
to some of his associates a junior in years, and was accorded the 
lalioring oar in all of the important trials conducted by the firm. 
As a trial lawyer, Air. Weisl^rod ranked with the foremost among- 
the younger lawyers of his state. He was a systematic, method- 
ical worker in the preparation of his case for trial, and never 
depended upon the hope that some fortunate turn of affairs would 
help him to a verdict. He was gifted with a remarkably clear, 
strong voice and by nature was graceful in his action and bear- 
ing, the element of precision being always apparent without a 
suggestion of the rigid. He was considered by the business in- 
terests of his city as one of the most safe and conseiwative coun- 
sellors and held an envied reputation for professional and busi- 
ness integrity. Air. W^eisbrod never having married, was his 
father's successor in the home as the head and adviser of the 
fanulv ui) to the time of his death. He was a member of the 



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Masonic order and filled the hig-hest office in the local lodge, 
about three years before his death. He was postmaster for the 
city of Oshkosh during the first Cleveland administration, in- 
dicating that he was a Democrat in politics. In his vouth he 
was a most ardent devotee of all the outdoor sports, and through- 
out his life devoted nuich of his leisure time to the pleasures of 
gun and rod. He was robust in health, strong in frame and of 
an extremely active, nervous temperament. 

Although he died at the age of forty, his vigorous manhood 
developed a finished individuality which was impressed upon the 
comnumity he left, and his professional life, though short, would, 
if sketched from the court records of his state, well-nigh fill the 
alottcd three score vears and ten of other men. 



Charles Manley Wells, M.S. 
Los Angeles, Cal. 

The most important event in 
the life of C. 'M. Wells occurred 
( )ctober 23d. 1842 — he was 
born — Gibson, S u s q ue h a n n a 
County, Pennsylvania. He be- 
gan life, not only very yotmg, 
I)ut also very small, his chief 
attributes at that time being 
\-()ice and appetite. "Hardly 
worth raising." was the verdict. 
.Still, in accordance with tlie cus- 
tom of liabies, he grew and was 
good and naughty, a blessing 
and a trial, as most children are. 
Until thirteen years of age, he 
lived in the coal mining town of Wilkesbarre, Penn., where his 
father, Geo. H. Wells, practiced law. During these vears the 
boy had the advantages of a good, plain home, a devoutly Chris- 




Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 205 

tian mother, a practical, free-thinking, upright father ; and he re- 
ceived i)lenty of precepts and admonition, enforced hy the mother 
with mild slaps and by the father with a severe rod. 

His primary schooling- was mostly obtained at home, taught 
by his parents ; hence it was neither systematic nor thorough. 
His great bug-bear was the horrible, unprincipled, wicked spell- 
ing of the English language, lacking sense and reason and right ; 
causing tears and heart burns innumerable ; otherwise he took 
hold well, without either precocity or dullness, and at thirteen 
stood, in patches, l)Oth l)eyond and behind the pupils of like age 
in the public schools. 

In 1855 tl^^ ^if^ o^' young Wells changed from town to coun- 
try — Wilkesbarre, Penn., to Gibson, Penn., since the father, be- 
cause of failing eyesight, was compelled to aljandon the practice 
of law and become a farmer. This meant to young Wells dis- 
trict school winters and hard work the rest of the year ; for Sus- 
qtiehanna County is rough, hilly and un]:)roductive, excepting in 
dairy products, and also in apples, with their bi-products — cider 
and applejack. This life was without luxuries, culture, society 
and other reputed advantages, l)ut gave in abundance the im- 
portant benefits of vigorous physical life, in fresh, pure air, with 
plenty of hearty, ntttritious food, and consequent active digestion 
and proper assimilation. The lioy soon distanced his classmates 
in the district schools, taking' "go as you please" courses, and 
later skirmished for more education in the higher schools of the 
county — at Harford. New Milford and Montrose, learning, at 
the latter place, the county seat, that vounger bovs could easily 
outrank him in education and social acquirements — an im^xirt- 
ant and needed lesson. 

He espoused the Fremont cause in the campaign with Bu- 
chanan in 1856, entering into it with hearty zest and enthusiasm, 
taking the teachings of Horace Greeley and the Tribune, as truth 
that shotild and must prevail. Having- remained ever since a 



206 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



consistent. l)nt not hidc-lxinnd Re])nl)lican. this early stand, in the 
light of snhse(|uent develoj^nients, is to him a sonrce of pleasant 
reniemhrance. 

When nineteen years old he taught the South (ii])son district 
school — a tough one — where the amiual practice had Iteen. hased 
on ])rinciple, to throw the teacher out of the school each winter. 
Here he "hoarded round", the redeeming feature heing that he 
<lid not fully realize the tmcultivated, and often uncouth, i)lane 
of his ])U])ils and their parents. 

.Vnd then the war jjroke out. I'nder a sense of dut\-, inten- 
sified hy a pending draft. Wells left school at Montrose and en- 
listed August, "62, as a recruit in lUittery l'\ Vlrst Pennsylvania 
Light .\rtillerv,l)eing then nineteen years old, under the regulation 
height and weight, hut sound and active. He participated in the 
battles of Fredericksl)urg, Chancellorsville, (jettyshurg and minor 
engagements; was under McClellan. liurnside, i looker and 
Meade, and acted as coni])any clerk, ]jostmaster and color-hearer. 
When I'ickett's division of the confederate army charged the 
federal lines at the entrance to Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg, the 
evening of the second da\' of the action. Wells was one of four 
oitt of the seventeen on his gun's crew remaining uninjured. 

The strain of army life was too great and soon after (iettys- 
burg he was taken very sick with dysentery, and in .\ugust, "63, 
was taken to a hospital at Washiriglon. Ilere for several days 
life became to him a lilank. He remembers several ])hysicians 
grouped about his bed in consultation, but took no interest in the 
proceedings. When well eiunigh to be moved, he was transferred 
to Chestnut Mill hosi)ital, near rhiladel])hia. .\s he slowly con- 
valesced from the dysentery, rheumatism made its a])])earance 
and remained, causing his discharge from the service, for dis- 
abilit}-, Januar}' 22, 1864. 

In the fall of '64, Wells exchanged his crutches for a cane, and 
his home studies for the Montrose school, drilling on amn, amas. 
oniiil. and other e([ua]lv meaningless combinations of sound, until 
he knew .Xndrew & Stoddaid's Latin grammar ])\ heart, forward. 



Dki'aktment of Literature, Science, and Arts. 207 



Ijackward and crosswaAs, hut, as a c()nse(|iK'iK-c, learned very 
little Latin. 

He taught a select school at ih-ooklyn, I'enn., the winter and 
sprins^ of '65, nettin^^ him $50.00 for three months, and with 
this returned to the Montrose school as a \)U])\\, hut was very soon 
€ngag;ed as a teacher instead, having- as pu])ils nia,n\- of his former 
classmates. 

Wells entered the l'ni\-ersity of Alichij^an with the class of 
'69, in the fall of '65, and remained during- the I'^reshman year. 
The paternal purse hein^" inadequate, he taught the succeeding 
vear as princi])al of the schools at Great Bend, Penn., at $75.00 
per month, and saved therefrom enough to ])rovide funds for the 
Sophomore year with the class of '70. In Ma)', '69, he vmex- 
pectedlv received a telegram from classmate Xohle, from Mil- 
waukee, conveying Col. Farquar's tender of the position of L". S. 
foreman of harl)or inq)r(jvements at ]\Liskegon, Mich. As this 
position paid $4.00 a da_\' and his pocket-hook was empty, he 
packed up. wound u]), and got out of Ann Arhor doul)le ([uick, 
two hours after the receipt of the telegram. In August his sta- 
tion was changed from Muskegon to Saugatuck, ^lich. He kept 
up his class studies, returning to the university for the regular 
commencement and spending the winter and spring of '69 and 
'70 at Ann Arhor. In ]May, '70, he again took charge of the 
govermnent work on the harhor at Muskegon, hut joined his 
class at commencement and graduated V>. S., returning to his 
work at ]\Iuskegon. 

While in college he was a memljer of the I'hilozetian dehating 
cluh and the Alpha Xu literar}- society. Was one of the speakers 
at the second Sophomore exhihition and also at the Junior ex- 
hil)ition. He ])resented tlv "class cup" at the hrst class reunion, 
in a ha])p_\' and interesting address, hefore a large audience in 
the Methodist church. 

In the spring of '71. he was advanced to the position of assist- 
ant U. S. engineer, and took charge of six harhors on the east 
coast of Lake Michigan, viz.: Muskegon. White River. I'cnt- 



208 Class of "70, University of Michigan. 



water, Luclington, Manistee and Frankfort, l)eing stationed suc- 
cessively at Muskegon, White River, Alihvaukee, Detroit and 
Pentwater. In Decemlier, ''ji. he was permitted to move his 
office for the winter to Ann Arlwr, where he took the course of 
law lectures at the university. 

He continued in the government employ until June. "74, when 
he resigned to take charge of the erection of an asylum for the 
insane at Pontiac, ]\lich . a state institution. Pie had, the pre- 
ceding autiunn, traveled all over eastern Michigan, with the 
State hoard for the purpose of locating this asylum. Wells re- 
mained here energetically at work until the asylum was com- 
pleted and ready for its first inmate. August 2d, 1878, when he 
took charge of the Inisiness management of the institution and 
he conducted it uiUil the close of "79. Failing health forced him 
to resign. He had for the past few years applied himself so 
closelv to his duties, visiting nearly all the as}'lums of the United 
States on business connected with the construction and ecjuip- 
ment of the building, that he was compelled to take a rest and 
go South, but his visit to Jdot Springs, Arkansas, and to Xew 
Orleans did not improve his health, and in June, '80, he went to 
New York City to consult Dr. Wm. A. Flammond. under whose 
treatment he barelv escaped alive. He spent the balance of the sum- 
mer at his father's home at (iibson. Pa., and in October he moved 
with his family to \\'auseon. ( )hio, and in December returned to 
Pontiac. The sudden death of his father, January 15, "81. called 
him east to Gibson, Pa., wliere he remained as administrator of 
the estate, until A])ril. He then returned to Alichigan and spent 
the remainder of the year a<: Kalamazoo, in poor health, planning 
and putting new heating apparatus in the ^Michigan asylum, at 
that place. 

In the fall of '81 he traveled through the northern part of the 
state with the board, to locate an additional asylum, which they 
did at Traverse City, and Wells was employed to take charge of 
its construction in ''^2. He continued in charge until its comple- 
tion in '85. In the meantime he suffered continually with rheu- 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 209 



matism, and traveled more or less for relief, going- to Trinidad, 
Colorado, Cincinnati. Lexington, Ky.. and St. Louis. 

In June, '85, he was made a trustee of the asylum and presi- 
dent of the board, in which position he was able to control the 
policy and management of the institution, and he introduced 
many improvements and betterments in the treatment of the 
insane. 

In "86 he spent the winter and spring in California in search 
of health, making another trip later to observe the simimer cli- 
mate. For several years he had been compelled to pass all or a 
portion of each winter in the South and, despairing of improve- 
ment under the old conditions, he determined to make sotithern 
California his future home. He consequently resigned his posi- 
tion at the asylum, cut loose from old scenes, old friends, estab- 
lished business, everything that had taken his thoughts and en- 
ergy since the days of '70, and in November, "86, moved to Los 
Angeles. 

His health rapidly improved, and he entered upon a success- 
ful business career, invested in real estate, assuming a director- 
ship in a bank and assisted in organizing the Los Angeles Safe 
Deposit and Trust Company, and was its president. He made 
a trip east in August. "87. by way of the Santa Fe. The year 
'88 marked a steady decline from the great boom of the previous 
two years, and in '89 his energies were devoted to hedging, 
trimming sail and bringing into port the crafts set afloat in "87. 

He made a trip east that year by way of Rio Grande, rettirn- 
ing to successfully op]:)ose and help defeat the issue of $1,250,000 
sewer bonds, as a debt on the City of Los Angeles, and was made 
president of a citizens" committee to determine and report upon 
the best method of disposing of the sewerage of the city. He 
was president of a citizens' commission, organized to urge mu- 
nicipal ownership and control of the city water system, and how 
best to obtain an ample supply of pure water ; and in tlie dull 
years following the boom, he entered heartily into many ques- 
tions of municipal reforms and local improvements. 



210 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

The Los Angeles chamber of commerce, having at that time 
a membership of 500 representative citizens — since more than 
doubled — made him its president in January, '91, and re-elected 
him a year later, although he refused to become a candidate for 
re-election until the evening before the vote was taken. 

Preparation for the Chicago World's Fair early became a 
vital question with California, more especially southern Cali- 
fornia. The legislature of the state appropriated $500,000 for 
the state exhibit, and the counties gave, in work, exhibits and 
money twice as much for county exhibits. Wells, as president of 
the chamber of commerce, was necessarily prominent in the local 
preparation, which led to his appointment, unsought, in August, 
'92, to be superintendent of the horicultural department of the 
state exhibit. This work took him to San Francisco, where he 
spent the balance of the year, very actively engaged in organiz- 
ing the World's Fair work. 

Meantime, however, he returned temporarily to Los Angeles 
and made a campaign for the Republican nomination for mayor 
of the city. While leading in the convention, he withdrew from 
the race in order to unite all the strength of the better elements 
as against the candidate of the already coml)ined and powerful 
spoils elements, which was successfully done. 

in January, "93, he was made secretary of the California 
World's Fair commission, retaining his position as superintendent 
of the horicultural department, and the following March moved 
to Chicago and l)ecame the executive head of the commission, 
which remained in California ; entering most energetically into- the 
work of organizing and installing the exhibits. During the fair. 
Wells worked intensely and incessantly, but was not conscious of 
the high pressure until when, at its close, the strain removed, he 
collapsed on his return to Los Angeles, December, '93. He 
sttffered intenselv from rheumatism and kindred troubles, was 
confined to his bed most of the year 1894 and portion of '95, and 
did not relinquish his crutches until xA.ugust, '96. In '96 he es- 
sayed, handling real estate, but soon proved unequal to the strain, 
and since that time he has attempted no regular business or par- 
ticipation in affairs, and he carefully avoids the entanglements 
of work /to bono publico. 



Department of Litekature, Science, and Arts. 211 

An acute attack of his old enemies developed in ( )ctober, 
1900, while he was spending the summer on the beach at Santa 
Monica, and the struggle for life was a hard one, the rally very 
slow, and he remained in Santa Monica until December, '01, 
when he returned to Los Angeles, his general health nuich im- 
proved. 

He is now, Xovember, 1902, much bent and crii)])led, \\alks 
but little, and the stock of vital force is reduced, so as to pre- 
clude the strain of business. I>y careful, hygienic living and 
conservation of vitality, he hopes to rt^gain much lost ground, 
and looks forward to many years of comfortable quiet. 

In politics Wells is hard money, isthmian canal, expansion and 
protection, and he recognizes that trusts have come to stay — a 
world evolution — to be controlled, not effaced ; and he rejoices 
to see the United States take its proper place as a great world 
power. 

In religion he earl}- cut loose from dogmas and the creeds, 
as was instanced when, as a junior before the Alpha Nu, he pro- 
posed and took the negative of the ([uestion, "Resolved, That 
there is such a being as the Devil," and won out, the votes of 
the society retiring his satanic majest}- from existence. 

With earning capacity gone, he would like a longer purse, but 
it will suffice for plain, economical living. Some of the irons 
put into the fire twelve and fourteen years ago are not yet cold, 
and possiiily may still be forged into shape to his liking. 

In temper he is equible ; in views positive, but conservative; 
in action intense; in execution exact; his memory poor; intuition 
good; expression concise, Init not fluent; and his life has cen- 
tered around his home, rather than around society and the clubs. 

The best work of his life, as affecting his fellowmen. was in 
the changes, raticjnal and humanizing, in the treatment of the in- 
sane, introduced through his official influence ; abolition of me- 
chanical restraints, nuift's, straps, straight-jackets, wristlets, etc., 
substituting therefor, when necessary, personal restraint ; the 
abolition of chemical restraints, anodynes that quiet through stu- 
pefaction, leading inevitably to final collapse; better feeding of 
the patients; more occupation, exercise, out-of-door life; better 
surroundings; inside the halls carpets, pictures and music; all the 



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Class of "70, Uxiversity of Michigan. 



hvijicnic means and influences that, with the sane and insane 
aHke. tend to (juiet, (Hvert and n(uirish and thus restore 1)\- Imild- 
ing" up an increased vitalitw 

His boys. Lionel C. Frank U.. and (leorge R., were horn re- 
spectively, Xovember 2S. '71 : May 28th, '71; : and September 18, 
'82. To their mother. Hattie L. Smallman, married December 
21st, '70, they owe very largely their good qualities in tempera- 
ment and disposition. 

Wells is of Anglo-Saxon stock from Orange County, Xew 
York. His father, (ieo. H. \\ ells, was lawyer, farmer, merchant 
in turn : an upright, honorable man of force antl character. His 
mother. Charlotte Hallock, whose father served in Congress, was 
of an emotional, religious, refined nature, good and sensible in 
all things. The present address of Charles M. Wells is 923 East 
Adaius Street, Los Angeles, California. 



Charles Rudolphus Whitman, A.M., LL.B. 

Chicagfo, III. 

C harles R. Whitman, son of 
William Creen and Laura Jane 
I l'"inch ) Whitman, was born at 
.""^iiuth Uend, Ind., October 4, 
1847, and is a seventh lineal de- 
scendant of John Whitman, of 
Weymouth, Mass. He atteiuled 
the schools of his native town un- 
til fourteen years of age. then re- 
moving with his ]>arents to Chi- 
cago. He entered the Foster 
School there in 1862. and was 
graduated in 1863. receiving 
therefrom the Foster medal, 
awarded for excellence of scholar- 
ship, and on competitive examination was admitted to the Chicago 
high school in the autumn of that vear. During the winter of 




Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 213 



1864-5 he attended the high school at Ann Arhor. Mich., after- 
ward entering the Ypsilanti Seminary, from which he was grad- 
uated in 1866. In Septeml:)er of that year he l)ecame a member 
of the class of 1870 in the literary department of the University of 
Michigan. He was one of the speakers at the Junior exhibition. 
He was graduated with the class with the degree of A.B. From 
1870 to 1871 he was principal of the Ypsilanti Seminary. In the 
fall of 1 87 1, he entered the law department of the university and 
was graduated in 1873: in 1875 he received from the university 
the degree of A.M. Following his graduation in 1873, Whitman 
located for practice in Ypsilanti in partnership with Hon. Chaun- 
cey Joslyn, his father-in-law, who sulisequently became circuit 
judge. For several vears Whitman was secretary of the school 
board at Ypsilanti. In 1876, he was elected circuit court com- 
missioner for Washtenaw Count}', serving two years, and, by ap- 
pointment, became injunction master for the county. In 1882 he 
was elected prosecuting attorney, being re-elected in the spring of 
1884 and serving for two terms. At the state election in the 
spring of 1885, he was elected regent of the University of Michi- 
gan and filled that position for a term of eight years, commencing 
January i, 1886. Wdiile on the board he was a member of the 
executive committee and also a member of other important com- 
mittees. In 1887 he removed to Ann Arbor. In 1891, without 
warning, he was appointed by Governor W'inans railroad com- 
missioner for the State of Michigan, which position he held dur- 
ing the Governor's term of office. In 1895 he removed his law 
office from Ann Arlior to Detroit, but retaining his residence in 
Ann Arbor. In 1896 he was appointed assistant United States 
district attorney at Detroit, and continued in that position until 
something over a year after the termination of President Cleve- 
land's second administration. In February, 1899, he removed to 
his old home. Chicago, where he entered upon the practice of his 
profession. His office is in the First National IJank Building. He 
has a wide acquaintance in the city, and is enjoying a very satis- 
factor}- and growing practice. 

Whitman's eight years service upon the lioard of regents was 



214' Class of '70. Uxrersitv of IMichigan. 



to him a labor of love, and he hopes was of value to his alma 
mater. The fact that he resided in Ann Arhdr. that he was per- 
sonally acquainted with all the memliers of the various faculties, 
and that as an alumnus he should know the wants of the uni- 
versity, g'ave his voice abided weight in the counsels of the hoard. 
A\ hen he became a memlier the maxinnnn salary of the professors 
in the literary department, however long" the service, was but $2,- 
200; that of assistant professors was $1,600. and of instructors 
$800. It was yearly becoming- more and more impossil)le to re- 
tain the men who were most worth keeping. ^lany al)le men re- 
mained because of local attachments, or liecause of independent 
means, but the grade of salaries was steatlily tending to leave 
only deadwood upon this faculty of the university. Whitman 
originated a scheme, which was carried, under which ten years" 
service gave to full professors $3,000, and live years $2,500. and 
which gave a corresponding advance, but for shorter service, for 
assistant professors and instructors. The measure was made re- 
troactive in effect. It was not all he wanted, lint it was infinitely 
better than the old scale. During Whitman's term of office some 
most important departments were established, in the promotion 
of which he took active and influential ])art. In those days the 
fixed income of the university was never sufficient ; the very life 
of the institution depended upon special legislative appropriations. 
He devoted nuich time, every session, to the interests of the uni- 
versity at Lansing. 

Xo old-time student, who ever had his one-night stand at the 
observator}' while accjuiring a knowledge of astronomy under 
"Tubby's" tutelage, can fail to recall the cat-hole, the deserted old 
cemetery north of it. and the glorious hills and sweet valleys off 
toward the obsenator}'. Whitman transfigured this region. He 
purchased the land lying north of the old cemetery and extending 
to Ann street ; he caused the cemetery to be turned over to the city 
and to be made into a beautiful ]iark ; he caused Huron street to 
be extended east ; he Imilt upon his property, for his own use. a 
very handsome dwelling which, in after vears. he sold to the Chi 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 215 



Psi fraternity; and he covered his Ijlock with utlier tine residences. 
Since then the door he opened has led to the improvement of the 
land lying" east from his and just west of the ohservatory, and now 
those hills are occupied by some of the most delightful residences 
in Ann Arl)or. 

In view' of the office of this sketch, it is hoped that the quota- 
tions which follow' may be pardoned. Their presence is due to 
Dawson, who assumes full responsil)ility for them. They relate 
to personal qualities which may not, otherwise, appear. 

The recent nomination l)y the Democracy of ^Michigan of 
Judge Durand, of Mint, for governor recalls the occasion, in a 
state convention at Detroit, when Whitman placed Durand in 
nomination for justice of the supreme court. The Detroit Free 
Press of I^.Iarch ist, 1893, said of this speech : "When Mr. Whit- 
man, of Washtenaw, made the first nominating speech he set a 
pace that could never have been followed save in a carefully 
selected Democratic convention. He has an imposing presence, a 
penetrating, well-modulated voice and a remarkable command of 
forcible English. Mis oratorical gifts are of an enviable character 
and when he warmed to his theme he held his hearers spell-bound 
and swayed their feelings in unison with his own. He is a man 
who would attract flattering commendation in anv assemblage, 
and the yell that went u]) as he sat down showed that Durand 
stock was strong in the convention." 

During Whitman's service as prosecuting attorney, the notori- 
ous Sophie Lyons was apprehended in the county on a charge of 
larceny from the person. The importance of the case arose from 
the fact that this woman was a professional blackmailer and the 
most adroit thief and female criminal operator known to the police 
here and abroad. Speaking of her conviction, the Detroit Free 
Press of Februar}- 5, 1883, editorially said: "The conviction of 
Sophie Lyons in the Washtenaw circuit court is an event upon 
which prosecuting attorney Whitman deserves to be warmly con- 
gratulated. It is true that he has done only his duty; l)ut he has 
done it under peculiarl}- tr\ing circumstances. He was not only 



216 Class of "70, University of Michigan. 

confrontetl by able counsel, but by a ilctoiuhuit i^f siui^ular skill 
in tlie evasion of the criminal law and by an enormous outside in- 
fluence which the defendant was able to commantl. That there 
Avas rank perjury on the defendant's behalf no one can doubt who 
has followed the report of the trial : aiul it is not at all difficult to 
believe that the searching- investigation which is promised will 
reveal a good deal in the way oi bribery of witnesses as well as 
perjury. Against such odds the battle was a dithcult one and ^Ir. 
Whitman's victory is a highly creditable one." Ouring Whitman's 
four years' service as prosecuting" attorney he convicted every per- 
son he put upon trial save in two instances. 

Upon the aj^jioinlment oi Whitman as railroad commissioner. 
the Detroit Evening Xews of January 14. i8gi. said: "Charles 
R. Whitman, the new railroad commissioner, gets his ai")pointment 
as a reward for his brilliant elo(|uence in behalf of \\ inans and 
Democracy. While his selection was a surprise, it will be atl- 
mitted that the party had not an abler man autl a more ardent and 
faithful ser\-ant. He has been a regent of the state university for 
four }ears. as devoted and haril wm-kiug a member as the board 
has had. and to-da}- might have written M.C. after his name had 
he only dared face an almost hopeless fight and accepted the 
nomination in the second district. Whitman entered his appear- 
ance in '47, down in Indiana. His boyluuHl days were spent near 
the home of Schuyler Colfax — a worthy example for a Inulding 
youngster in everything but politics. sO' he says. A youth, he 
went to Chicago to work ott his ignorance in the public schools. 
He did it successfully antl in '06 was as fresh a freshman as ever 
asked admission to his university. Then came successively gratl- 
itation, seminar}- principalsbip at Yj^silanti, marriage and a law 
business, a few minor offices, the regenc\- and a lot of business, 
making him one of Ann Arbor's best and surely the handsomest." 

In a report of a St. Patrick's da\- banciuet. held at the au- 
ditorium at Detroit, on the evening of .March 17. 1806. the Detroit 
Evening Xews of Alarch 18, said: "l')\' the lime the Ihshop 
finished, the social nature of \our true Irishman bad asserted it- 



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self, and the pc()])lc' at tlic tables and in tlic i;alkTifs had rcstjlved 
themselves into congenial groups whose conversation made any 
attcmj)t to follow the remarks of the other speakers futile. I'>ery- 
])od\- started in tfj enjoy the occasif)n in his (jr her own way, hut 
there was a stilling of the tongues and an oi)ening of the ears 
when Hon. C"has. R. W'liitman, of Ann .\rh(jr. in the coiu'se of his 
res]X)nse to the toast, 'America,' launched into a manly and 
s])irited dentuiciation of religious intolerance. I le hrielly reviewed 
the rise and fall of the knounothing ])arty, and predicted a similar 
brief and honorless record for the A. I'. .\. When he pro])hesied 
that in a few \ears politicians would be seeking to conceal the 
fact that the\- had been A. P. A.'s, as in the '70s, they denied hav- 
ing been knownothings, he was heartily cheered." 

In i<S7i, he married h'lvira C, (laughter of Hon. Chauncey 
Josl\n, (jf Y])silanti, and they have four sons: Ross Chauncey, 
born in March, US73, a graduate of the literary department of the 
L'niversity of Michigan, class of 1894, and of the medical dejjart- 
ment, class (jf 1899, and now connected with two important h(;s- 
pitals and practicing medicine in Chicago; Lloyd Charles, born 
in June, 1875. a graduate of the literary department of the uni- 
\ersity. class of 1896. and of the law de])artment, class of 1898. a 
member of the winning team which rei)resented the university in 
the inter-collegiate debates in 1898, now, with marked success, 
l)racticing law in Chicago; Roland Dare. b(jrn in June, 1877, a 
graduate of the literary (le])artment of the universitw class (jf 1897, 
and of the law (lei)artment, class (jf 1899, and now a growing 
member of the ])rominent law firm. Smith, llelmer & Moulton, in 
Chicago; and JJayard Joslyn, Ijorn in August, 1885, and until re- 
cently a student in the university. 

W'bilman is in the enioNinent of perfect health. 1"hough time 
has whitened pretty thoroughly the hair and mustache, his old 
friends sa\- he has not changed greatly in ])ersonal appearance. 
He lives on the north side of Chicago, where he has all his boys, 
save the youngest one, living with him. 1 lis greatest ])leasure is to 
greet his collesje classmates and to introduce them into his large 



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Class of 70, Uxiveksitv of Michigan. 



lionio-circlc. A bit of good fortune came to him rocontl\-, in the 
findino- of large deposits o\ I'csscmor ore n]ion ])ropertv in the 
]\lesaba range in wliieli. for nianv vears. he has had an interest. 



Warren Chaffee Willits, C.E. 

Died at Denver, Col., October 30, 1 90 J. 

lie was horn at Adrian, Lena- 
wee Co., Mich., Jnl\- o. 1S47. llis 
I'atlier, Parius C. WiUits, was a 
farmer, lie came oi an old luig- 
lish tamil) . Three of his aneestiirs 
— all of the name nf Willits — were 
mayors of Xew \'ork C'itw War- 
ren L". was a near relative of 
.Senator Jerome 11. C'haitee, one 
ot the pioneer settlers of Colorado, 
and also of Ceneral Chaffee, who 
commanded at the siege oi I'ekin. 
llis family for se\-eral generations 
lias heen interested in edticational 
\\(irk. Mr. W'illiis ])repared for 
college at llie Cnion School, .\drian, and enteretl the Cniversilv 
of ^Michigan in the fall of 1866. with the class of '70. and re- 
mained the full term of four years, receiving the degree of C.I'-. 
He was a member of the Literary .\tlelphi. After graduation he 
was engaged for some years in ma]) making. ha\ing his head- 
quarters for a time at Milwaukee. Wis. 

On August 30. 1S73, he married Charkute X'eLodd Kious. at 
Chicago. Rev. 'Sir. Osgood being the otficialing clergvman. She 
was born at Columl)ns, O., tracing her famil\- back to the Staunton 
settlement in \"irginia. before revolutionary times. She was 
educated in both public and private schools in Ohio and Illinois, 
and has always maintained an es])ecial interest in educational 
work. 




Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 219 



Mr. Willits locate-d at Kansas City. ^lo., alxivit 1875, and re- 
mained there one \ear and thence went to Denver, Col. In 1879, 
he located at Silver Cliff, Custer Co., Col, en,c:af,nn<2^ in surveying 
and mining and identifying himself with engineering enterprises 
of the state. On .May I, 1883, President Arthur aiJ])ointed him 
receiver of the I'. S. land office at Denver, which office he held 
for two years. Having ])urchased a farm (A 120 acres just out- 
side of the city limits of Denver, lie took uj) his residence there in 
Xovemher. 1884. Later he was the government agent to compile 
the mortgage and loan indehtedness census, and was also engaged 
by the government in other important works. Under surveyor- 
general Humphreys he had charge of the mineralogical depart- 
ment, involving the mineral survey of the State of Colorado. 
Early in 1893. Mr. Willits went to Galveston, Tex., and after 
nearly a year's work published a map of that city and environs 
which ])ecame the standard by which real estate transfers were 
regulated up to the time of the great flood. Even now Mr. Willits' 
surveys are authorities on lines in portions of the Ciulf port. 

Recently Mr. Willits published what is known as Willits" farm 
map of Denver and surrounding country for a distance of 20 miles 
from the court house in I^enver, giving the name of the owner of 
each tract. This work took some years to complete, and is in 
every real estate office in Denver. He was the patentee of a hose- 
holder for use in sprinkling lawns. 

In a letter written by Mr. Willits, (Jctober 7, 1901, he says: 
"Some years ago I gave some data concerning my biography. It 
was printed and I received a copy thereof, and it is stored away 
with our class photographs carefully, but it is not easy to refer to 
it. Whatever is in that was true then and is still true. Nothing 
is to be added to that except that I am older, a little stouter (about 
190 pounds), quite gray, considerably bald, wear glasses to see 
the lines in my own hand, but am more active than in youth. I 
have not been governf)r of a state, nor have I done any notable 
thing. I am still just Warren C. \\'illits." Only 23 days after 
writing this letter aufl in the twinkling of an eye, on (Jctober 30, 



220 Class of "70, University of Michigan. 

1901, he passed to the other shore. A Denver paper thus speaks 
of the circumstances of his death : 

" 'jNlister, are you sick?' asked a Httle ])o\ who backed off a 
few feet from a man who sat on the cnrl)-stone. A number of 
people had seen the large, healthy looking- man dismount from his 
wheel, walk over to the curb and sit down, with his hands over 
his heart. There was no answer to the bov's question. The man's 
muscles relaxed and he was dead — sitting on the curl:) as natural 
as life and holding up his wheel. The crowd that quickly collected 
soon identilied the unfortunate man as Warren C. Willits, Re- 
publican candidate for county surveyor. He had died like the 
snufifing of a candle. 

"Glowing with health and happiness Mr. Willits bade good-bye 
to his daughter at the 8 :30 train for P.oulder, and started up 
Seventeenth street on his wheel. He had only started. As he 
crossed the tracks at the south side of the depot area, he dis- 
mounted, walked to the curb and sat down. Not one mile away 
his daughter, a student at the state university, who was his idol 
and who idolized him, was speeding the other wa}-. She had 
come to Denver Saturday and, as usual, her fond father gave 
every spare minute to her, lavishing evervthing in his power upon 
her. The prostration with which Mrs. Willits received the news at 
their home, portrays the place the deceased held in the hearts of 
his people." 

It is said that at the breakfast table on the day of his death 
Mr. Willits was bright and cheery, but that in the course of the 
repast he said : "Wouldn't it be an awful thing if one of our little 
family were taken away?" It would seem from this that he had 
a premonition that the angel of death was then not far from him. 
His family thought lightly of the remark until the sad intelligence 
of his sudden demise was brought home. 

Thus passed away another nolile and genial member of "70. 
Mr. Willits was naturally of a modest, retiring disposition, Ijut 
was a person of ability and good judgment. He was generous, 
affable and kind. He had a pleasant word for every one with 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 221 



whom he came in contact. He leaves a host of achiiiring- friends 
to mourn his loss, hesides a widow and daughter, June Kious 
Chaffee \Villits, who reside at 628 30th Ave., in Denver, and a 
mother and hrother in Adrian, Mich. 



Samuel Robertson Winchell, A.M. 
Chicago, III. 

Samuel Robertson Winchell 
( not Schuyler Robertson, as the 
university scribe persisted in writ- 
ing his name ) was born in the 
town of .\orth East, Duchess Co., 
Xew ^'ork. Xovember 26, 1843. 
His father's name was Horace 
W'inchell, a somewhat noted 
character, who was born at "the 
old homestead" on Winchell 
Mountain, and well known in all 
the villages and cities of that 
region. His mother's name was 
Caroline AlacAllister, daughter of 
Alexander MacAllister, of Scotch- 
Irish descent. James Manning Winchell, pastor of the first Bap- 
tist church of lUjston and joint editor of the .American Bal^tist 
Mai^a.::iiic. was Winchell's uncle. He was also the editor of an 
edition of Watts' hymns which was generally used by the Baptist 
churches in America under the title of "Winchell's Watts." 

A word further should l)e said of Winchell's father, who was 
in many respects one of the most remarkable men of his day. He 
was noted for his self-sacrificing devotion to the principles of 
ecclesiastical reform. These principles he advocated by teaching, 
preaching and writing, imtil the close of a most earnest and con- 
sistent Christian life in June, 1873. His familiarity with the sacred 




222 Class of '70, University ok Michigan. 



Scriptures was ])lK'n()iiK'iial. 1 Ic was one of the very foremost to 
advocate the sinfulness of sectarianism, and of shivery, and the 
ar1)itrati(»n of national disputes without resort to war. lie wrote 
and ])nl)lished twent\' pamphlets in which he discussed these and 
similar (piestions with a loL;"ic and with Scriptural proof which 
were almost irrefutahle. 

Alexander Winchell. the eminent ^eoloj^ist, lecturer, and au- 
thor, was W'incheirs eldest hrothcr. Xcwton II. Winchell, who 
has made a national re])utation hy the publication of six elaborate 
volumes as chief ;^eolo<;ist of the State of Minnesota, and'as editor 
<^)f the America)! C'raloi^lst . is also an elder brother. 

Charles M. Winchell, wlio was L^raduated from the I'niversity 
of Alichii^an in 1873, as a civil eni^ineer. is a younger l)rother. 
Charles has been almost continually in the employ of the govern- 
ment, in the sur\-e\- of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, and 
the harbor at (ialveston, Texas. iJe is at present city engineer 
in Washington, Ind., where he ilrst found his wife and where he 
has since ke])t his home. 

Winchell's earliest education was obtained in the district and 
village schools cjf New York and Connecticut, lie learned easily 
and was usually in advance of the boys and girls of his own age. 
When barelv sixteen years of age he was placed in charge of a 
winti'r school in the town of ."^haron, (dun. The winter before 
he had spent in study at the academy in .Salisbury. Mis first 
school was locatt'd about eight miles from his home in Lakeville, 
in a valK'v known as White's Hollow, but he foimd a "short cut" 
o\'er a mountain and across a lake which reduced the distance to 
about hve miles, and this route was tra\ersed by him every alter- 
nate f'riday night to his home and back again Sunday night. The 
school "visitor," as the commissioner or su])erintendent was called, 
had taught the village school in Lakeville two years before, when 
Winchell had been the onl\- ])upil venturesome enoiigh to under- 
take the stu(l\- of Latin. This stud\- was begun without lesson 
book, grammar, or "reader." llis teacher placed in his hands a 
little volume entitled "Historiae Sacrae" and told him to examine 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 223 



the first sentences earefnll\-, <4uessin<4' at the nieanin^' of the words 
and notini^- their resenihlanee to I^n^Hsh words of similar mean- 
ing". This was the (i])en door to what became for liim in later years 
a deh'ghtful ])astime and recreation. 'IMiongli plunged a few years 
later into the formal te\t-l)ook study of the language, where he 
iiotmcleri'd during the usual periocl of preparatory study, he finalK- 
abandoned the stilted, metdianical nieth(jds of the text-books and 
resuiued tln' rational method of his first teacher, and this method 
he has himself used in his later teaching. .At present he is en- 
gaged in writing a guide for beginners in Latin, following sub- 
stantially the method by which he first learned the language, and 
found it a delight instead of a Ixjre. 

dhe first school above referred to was a typical New I'Jigland 
country scIkjoI. The wages received were fourteen dollars a 
month ; the term lasted three luonths, and the teacher was e.\])ected 
to spend one week boarding at the house of each ])upil. In all 
there were twent\-two pu])ils eiu'olled. The winter was a very 
severe one and the snows were deep and continuous. It was the 
<luty of the teacher to build the lire's and keep the school room in 
order. I I ere was set the standard and ideal for WincheH's future 
career. Mere for the hrst time he became serious and really in- 
<lepen(lent. The \isions of future study and ])ersonal influence 
which presented themseh'es to him in that Hrst three months of a 
scho(jl teacher's life never faded awaw and have been his ins])ira- 
tion in all his subse(juent career. 

As soon as practicable he entered .\menia Seminarw .\menia, 
N. v., as a student. ( )ne term of stud\- in the fall, a w inter of 
school teaching, another term of stud\ in the spring, and a sum- 
luer of hard work on a farm brought him to the era of local ex- 
citement and enthusiasm over the enlistments for service in the 
civil war. .Abandoning his fanu work he returned U) his hoiue 
with the announcement that he was going t(j enlist in the army. 
Hut his friends persuaderl him to return to the seminary, wdiere 
he restuned his studies as a kind of link between facultv and 
students, being assigned a room in the main building of the living 



224 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

rooms of the faculty, and l^eing g-iven charge of the respoiisilile 
duties of rino;ing- the seminary Ixdl. hghting; the lamps in the halls, 
and sweeping the floors of two buildings. These duties necessitated 
late hours for study, and his room, which hitherto had been known 
as "the sky parlor," was soon given the significant name of "the 
owl's nest." 

After another winter of teaching and a spring term at the 
seminary, he was graduated in 1863 with second honors and de- 
clared ready for college. His classmates all went to Wesleyan 
University at Middletown. Conn., hut by the advice of his brother, 
Alexander, he chose the l^niversity of Michigan, and in Septem- 
ber of that year found himself a freshman at the great university. 
This was the first year of Dr. E. ( ). Haven as president of the 
universitv, and Dr. Haven, with his family, was living temporarily 
at the home of Prof. Alexander \\'inchell. This threw S. R. into 
close companionship with Dr. Haven's son, (). E. Haven, who 
was later one of the class of '70. 

After an examination of the requirements for admission to the 
university, Winchell concluded that his preparation had been too 
meager to admit him to the freshman class, and he decided to 
spend one year at the Ann Arbor high school to fit himself for 
regular class standing, Ijut Dr. Haven advised him to take the 
examinations for admission just to see how he would come out. 
This he did, and to his surprise he was admitted with "conditions." 
The conditions were remo\e(l before the holidays, for which he 
always felt grateful to his tutor, E. D. Kinne, of the class of "64. 
who gave him his first real knowledge of (ireek and Latin prose 
composition, Greek accent, and much of the Greek grammar. 

Soon after entering the university he began to receive special 
attention from certain memliers of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fra- 
ternity, not suspecting their motive. At last it was arranged that 
Ed. Wetmore, a classmate who had been ])reviously initiated, 
should escort him late one Saturday night to the society hall for 
initiation. The experiences of that night need not be revealed 
here. In due time he "swung out" as a "D. K. E.." and during 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 225 



his whole colleo-e life found this to be one of the most helpful and 
satisfying- of all his college experiences. During- his freshman 
year he identified himself with the Students' Christian Associa- 
tion and the Alpha Xu literary society. 

At the end of the first semester W'inchell came near being- 
conditioned in mathematics. Tutor Allen J- Curtis had been his 
instructor in Algebra, and fortunately was living in Prof. Win- 
chell's family, so that it was easy for a second examination to be 
arranged before the reports were read in the chapel. In Latin 
and Greek he came out with flying colors. Wetmore, who had 
taken the prize for best preparation at the examinations for ad- 
mission, and Sheets, the intellectual and physical hero of the class, 
were the only ones who outranked him in those studies. 

Ihit the year was one of severe mental and physical strain, and 
nearly ruined him for future work of any kind. Being wholly 
without funds, and dependent upon himself for an income, he 
had been compelled to wt)rk three hours a day five clays a week, 
and six hours on Saturday's, at manual labor, to pay for his room 
and board. By borrowing $25 of his brother, Newton, he was 
able to keep his clothes in repair and supply himself with necessary 
books. At the close of the first year he was so completely broken 
down that it was with difficulty he could earn his living through 
the summer months. This he did, however, bv peddling portraits 
of the generals in the army, in the country region around Ann 
Arbor. 

In the fall of 1864, he was recommended for the principalship 
of the Birmingham Academy, at Birmingham, ^ylichigan, by state 
superintendent John AI. (iregor}-. This position he held until the 
following March, when he returned to his parent's home in Lake- 
ville, Conn., where his Ijrotlier, Alexander, lay sick with inflam- 
matory rheumatism — the l:)eginning of the fatal malady which 
twenty-five years later was the cause of his death. The summer 
of 1865 was spent at farm work near the village of Lakeville, and 
in the fall he was offered the principalship of the union school in 
Paw-Paw, jNIichigan. Here he taught one year with marked sue- 



226 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

cess. Returnii\^" in the fall of iSbb to the university, he spent his 
sophomore year with the class of '69. This year he found plenty 
of tutoring- to do to keep hini supplied with necessary funds, at 
one time having" a class of thirty, mostly law stuilents, wht)m he 
tauo;ht Caesar's Commentaries in Dr. 1-rieze's class room. 

In the spring- of 1867 he was called to the principalship of the 
Third A\'ard school in Mint. ^lichigan. and tlropped his studies 
at the imiversity with the intention oi making them up during the 
summer vacation. This he did. hitt not in a very thorough man- 
ner. Plane trigonometry he had to learn without an instructor, 
htit two weeks of study made him master of the suhject. The 
Antigone of Sophocles he had to read alone during- the vacation 
and Dr. James R. Boise was generous enough to give him an easy 
examination on the front steps of Professor Winchell's residence. 

Late this summer Winched again yieldeil to the solicitation of 
the school hoard in Mint to retm-n and take the principalship of 
the new hig-h school which was to he opened for the second and 
third wards of that city. Zelotes Truesdel was city superintendent 
of schools and engagetl W'inchell to take the scluml census of the 
two wards. This he did alone, which occuiMcd the last two weeks 
of vacation. Owing" to sickness in the family of superintendent 
Truesdel the whole lahor of e.xaminalions for admission, classitica- 
tion. courses of study, and making prog-ram. fell upon W'inchell 
without warning", and this was all the greater hecause the old city 
hall, in which the high school was to he qttartered. was not yet 
read}' for occupancy, and all work, both of superiiUendenc\- and 
principalshi]), had to he done in the unfit rooms of the second ward 
building". 

\\ hile at Mint W'inchell made himself generally useful in the 
community, as was his custom, acting as librarian and practical 
superintendent of the Court street r»»I. hi Sunday School, chorister of 
the church and Sunday School, teacher in the Congregational 
Stmday School, and singer in llie clu)ir nf the Congregational 
chitrch. whose services were held at an lnnir not to conflict with 
services in the other churches. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 227 

The next fall, i<S6X, W'inclicll aj^ain returned u> the university, 
cnterinj4" the class of '70. Durinj;' this year he was one (jf the 
editors of the Uiik'ersity Chronicle, memher of the L'niversity 
<ilee Clul) (the first year of its orj^^anization) and speaker at the 
Junior exhibition. The speakers were chosen by a vc^te of the 
faculty and were supposed to include those who held good rank 
in the class room. His studies this year were considerably mixed, 
as he had left the university in March. French he read with the 
senior class. Mathematics and (lerman he had comi)leted. i'rof. 
Moses Coit Tyler gave the class a few weeks in English, which 
were occupied chiefly in the reading of Chaucer's "Legende of 
Good Women," which was ver}- much enjoye<l. Our study of 
Physics under good old "I'unkey" was (jne of the most enjoyable 
of all our class room experiences — it was so easy for us to recite 
the lesson assigned and leave it for iieman and one ov tw(j (jthers 
to work the ])roblems on the blackbcjard. 

Just at the opening of the fall term in 1869, the adverse fates 
which had so many times cons])ired to interfere with Winchell's 
best success as a student, again com])elled him t(j acce])t a position 
as teacher, this time as ])rinci])al of the high scho<jl in Ann Arbor. 
Bv the advice and urgent recjuest (jf his teachers for the senior 
year, he promjjtly assumed the duties of ])rincipal on a single day's 
notice, relieving i'rof. \. 11. I'attengill, who was transferred to the 
ttniversity faculty. The year was an uneventful one, though 
hurdened with heav\- res])onsil)ilities and much hard work. Though 
not able to meet with his class exce]jt at long intervals, he was 
on hand to receive his diploma in June, 1870. and has always felt 
proud of the 76 manly classmates ( there were no ladies in the 
university then ) who have distinguished themselves since gradua- 
tion as well as before as being among the strongest and best of 
alma mater's sons. 

Immediately after graduation W'inchell took the train with 
classmate I>oss, for Chicago, and from there to Green Wax, Wis- 
consin, thence by boat to Kscanaba, Michigan, where he joined 
his brother, Xewton's, party as an adjunct of the State Geological 



228 Class qf '70, University of Michigan. 

Survey. After four weeks' experience in the field, sleeping every 
night in a tent, he found himself, with the rest of his party, except 
the sailor of their hoat, left helpless in an uninhahited region with 
no visible means of returning to civilization. The sailor had 
stolen the hoat and sailed for unknown parts. Fortunately a party 
of Indians soon appeared, and by the show of a little money were 
induced to carry the party to Escanaba in their lu)at. 

( )n returning to Ann Arbor, getting washed, shaved, and 
clothed, the next step in natural order was taking a wife. ( )n the 
second day of August, 1870, in liirmingham, .Mich., \\'inchell 
married A'liss Carrie E. Corson, one of his pupils at the Academy 
in 1864-65. A trip to ^Montreal, the (ireen Mountains, Boston, 
New York, Lakeville, Niagara Falls and Ann Arbor consumed 
what was left of vacation (and pocket money) and earl}- Septem- 
ber found him again at his ])ost in the .\nn .Vrhor high school. At 
the end of the school year his salary was increased $100; at the 
end of the third year another increase of $100 was given him, and 
at the end of the fourth year another increase of $100 was tend- 
ered him, but declined. In a few days he was otYered the super- 
intendency of schools in lA'cumseh, Mich., at an increase of salary 
four times as large as that which he had been offered in Ann 
Arbor. Ibis he accepted as offering him a tield of work less ex- 
acting than wliat be had been engaged in, which seemed desirable 
on account of the delicate condition of his health. 

The summer of 1873 was spent in Lakeville. where it fell to his 
lot to supervise the disposition of his mother's property, and pro- 
vide for her future home, his father ha\'ing died in June of that 
year. ( )n returning to Ann Arbor in August, and w bile preparing 
to transfer his home to Tecumseh, he was invited to the principal- 
ship of the Milwaukee high school, at a salary one-third higher 
than he was to receive in Tecumseh. Though late in the season, 
his release was granted and an immediate removal to Milwaukee 
was effected. 

This new position was held two years. During this period the 
school increased in numbers threefold and was twice civen in- 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 229 

creased accommodations. But the severe and exacting duties of a 
principalship were again found to be endangering to health, and 
plans were laid for a life of greater variety and more outdoor 
exercise. 

No field offered more congenial work than that of editor and 
publisher ; therefore for one year he acted as associate editor and 
publisher of The Public School Record in Milwaukee. The next 
year he became sole editor and publisher, changing the name of 
the paper to The School Biillelin and Northzeesleni Journal of 
Editcalioii. At the same time he edited for one year The Christian 
Statesman, a weekly semi-religious paper published in the same 
citv. In December, 1876, he purchased six other educational 
monthly periodicals published in the West, consolidated them all 
into The Edncatiomd JJ\\'kly, and opened an office of publication 
in Chicago. In this new field he found congenial work, but too 
much of it. and after four years of successful experience he sold 
the paper at a fair valuation and entered upon the publication of 
books for teachers and schools. In order to restore his health and 
at the same time provide for an assured income, he entered the 
employ of D. Appleton & Co., of New York, as traveling repre- 
sentative among high schools and colleges, and editor of their 
Latin and Greek publications, meantime building up his own pub- 
lishing interests as he found opportunity. In less than one year 
he was placed in charge of the New England department of that 
house, with headquarters in Boston. In the spring of 1886, his 
private business in Chicago having grown to such proportions that 
he deemed it wise to devote his whole attention to it, he resigned 
his position with D. Appleton & Co. and joined with D. Lothrop 
& Co., of Boston, in organizing a stock company under the name 
of the Interstate Pulilishing Company, with headquarters in Chi- 
cago and a branch in Boston. For one year \\'inchell had charge 
of the whole business, remaining in Boston, where numerous books 
and periodicals were published by the company. The second year 
he removed to Chicago and took charge of the main office. Dur- 
ing' these two vears a remarkalilv large business was transacted. 



230 Class of '70, Unj\'1':ksi'i\' (jI' jMichican. 



Abdiit five liundrcd noIuhr'S were hroii^lil (Hil. either fnun eii- 
tirel) ]iew philes or as revisions of works ])reviousl_\' published 
by I). Lotliro]) (K: Co. Also three monthly ])eriodieals were es- 
tablished, ealled The / iilcrslalc Readers — (iraiiiniar School, liitcr- 
mediale and /'riiiuiry. These jieriodicals reached an ag'iiret^ate 
cirenlation of 30,000 co])ies within twn _\ears. At the end of two 
Nears W inehell snddenh' aw<ike to a realization of the fact that he 
had placed all his own ])nl)lications and all his hold on a ])er- 
niaiu'nt business in the hands of an unscrnjjnlons man in whom 
he had im])licit conlidence, and nothing;' tangible was left him — 
not even a salaried ])osition. Me was "s(|neezed ont," as is so 
often done by stockholders in a corporation, when the\- ha])pen to 
control a maiorit\' of the stock. Xothini;' was left for him to do, 
therefore, e.\ce])t to cast about for a means of livelihood. Mis 
first move was to or^ani/.e "The .National ^'onn^• hOlks' Jveading 
Circle." idiis served to furnish a reasonal)le income for six 
months, \\hen The American I'.ook C'om])an\, through I). Ap])le- 
ton & Co., ai>'ain invited him to enter tlu'i]- t'uiplow and he con- 
sented. After a year in their service Iw was surprised b\ an in- 
vitation to the chair of J.atin in llu' Cniversit\ of Illinois. I lis 
health beiuL'; now full\- ri'stored, and tlu' allurements of the uni- 
versity i)osition beini; \erv strong', he acct'pted the ])rofessorsliii> 
and removed at once to ( hampai^n. I lis work tOr the .American 
])Ook C()mpan\- tt'rminated one Satm"da\' nii^^ht, and the foUowini;" 
Monday he was at his ])osf in tlu' uni\ersit\, feelini^ somewhat 
apprehensive of faihu-e, as he had not been teachino- for fifteen 
years, an<l had never before taught classes above tlu' hit^h school 
i^rade. liowever, he found himself not unsuitt'd to the work, and 
for a year and a half enjoyed life at its full. 

lUit alas for human frailty. .After rcjieated overtures from the 
American I look CO. to return to them, he at last \ielded, on as- 
surances of a fifty per C(,nt. increase in salary, a life temu-e of 
position, and the most congenial kind of \\ork. Seleetint>' a home 
in r^vanston, he a^ain took u]) his ])erambulations among- high 
schools and colleges, and for nearl\- two \ears enjoNcd the reconi- 



Department of Liti:ratl're, Science, and Arts. 231 

pcnse of salary promised, l)nt waited in vain for the most con- 
_q;enial work. At last it became evident that a mistake had been 
made, and that the position was an ideal one rather than a real 
one, and ])\- mutual agreement the relations were again dissolved. 
This was in ( )ctol)er, i^(.)2. The whole country, and especially 
Chicago, was preparing for the World's Fair in 1893. No work 
could he undertaken successfully which did not recognize this 
fact. Xo permanent connections could l)e made with any ])usiness 
house until after the first of November, 1893, and the apparent 
hckleness of Winchell's past career precluded the idea of his seek- 
ing- a new professional position. An interval of one }ear must 
therefore be provided for, and it was decided to follow the throng 
and to make a living in some way out oi the World's Fair. The 
easiest and most congenial way seemed to he to open a large hotel 
or rooming- house and rent rooms by the day to World's Fair 
visitors. .Vrrangements were therefore made to use a large block 
of flats just ])eing constructed, containing 138 rooms. \\y judicious 
management, this venture was made a success, though one in a 
thousand, as is well known. During this year the beginning was 
also made of a ])ermanent business along the lines of a Teachers' 
iVgency and Lecture r.ureau, so that after the close of "The Win- 
chelsea," which his hotel or rooming house was called, Winchell 
devoted his whole time and energies for a year to his new l)usi- 
ness. Hut in .September, 1894, not realizing sufficient income for 
a comfortable support of his family, he opened The Winchell 
Academy at his home in Fvanston, which he conducted for three 
years, until he could safely trust himself again to his Agency and 
Lecture llureau. During this period, as also during other such 
trying periods in his career, his ever-faithful and competent wife 
took hold of the business with him and thus enabled him to sus- 
tain what would otherwise have proven an unorofitable business. 
This business has now developed until it has ])ecome necessary to 
divide it into two distinct departments, each of which is con- 
ducted independent! \- of the other, and ]M-omises to l)ecome a 
profitable l)usiness in itself. Mrs. Winchell devotes her whole 



232 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



time to the teacliers' as^-ency. which is known as The Educational 
Register, while Mr. W'inchell manages 1'he Wincheh Lecture and 
Entertainment Bureau, llcjth are in good heahh and are working 
hard, anticipating yet the rewards which for most of a hfetime 
have been delayed. 

Since establishing his present business, A\'inchell has edited 
and pul)lishc(l l\\n-Jicr and Student, a monthly periodical, for 
three years, then merged ii into I'Jic Chicago Teacher, which he 
continued to edit for one year. He also established JVincheU's 
Quarterly, and after three years changed its name to Tlie Rostrum, 
which he contiiuics to publish. 

While ])rincipal of the IMilwaukee high school, he wrote A 
Latin Prose Coml^osiiion, which was pul)lished l)y E. H. Butter 
& Co., of Philadelphia. While with D. Appleton & Co., that firm 
published for him a Greek Prose Composition, entitled Elementary 
Lessons in (ireek Syntax. Other liooks written and ])ublished by 
him are entitled Primary Pridays No. I. Primary p'ridays i\o. 2, 
Primary Pndays No. ?, Intermediate Pridays, Grammar School 
Pridays, Primary School Songs Xo. i. Primary School Songs No. 
2, Intermediate School Songs, (i rani mar School Songs, Piterstate 
Primer Supplement, and Orthography, Orthoepy, and Punctua- 
tion, the last named ai)|)earing in 1901. He is just completing a 
manuscript which will be entitled irincheU's Cradatim. It is in- 
tended as a first bdok in Latin, or an introduction to the reading 
of Caesar. 

Airs. A\ inchell has also done considerable work of a literary 
kind. While living in lUjston she \vas editor of Common School 
Education for two }ears. Previous to that she edited The Prac- 
tical Teacher for two years, and later wrote as a regular contrib- 
utor to Intelligence, The A'ornial Instructor, and other teachers' 
journals. She was herself a teacher before marriage, in Clark- 
ston, Mich., and in Bay City. Her education was obtained at 
Albion College, and one year she was president of the Albion 
College Alumni .Association in Chicago. 

Mr. Winchell has three children living, Harlev Corson, born 



Df.I'ARTMENT of LlTKKATUKK, SCIKN CK, AND ArTS. 233 



Aug-. 13. 1871 ; Calphnrnia Alaia, l)orn May i6, 1874; and Julia 
Alexandrina, born Dec. 31, 1879. Roberta Carissima was l)orn 
Sept. 26, 1888, and (bed Jan. 23, 1895. 

Harley Corson was one of tbe "class boys." He attended the 
University of Illinois and the Northwestern University, but 
abandoned study for l)usiness before graduation. Jle is now en- 
gaged in business near bis father in Chicago, as manager of the 
Educational Register Company, originally a department of his 
father's business, which is devoted to the supplying of skilled em- 
ployees to tbe leading firms of Chicago. Cal])hurnia Maia is the 
wife of Webster J. Stel)l)ins, principal of tlie bigb school in Wau- 
Icegan, Illinois. 

Julia is a student at tbe Cumnock School of Oratory, of 
Northwestern I'niversity, and lives with ber ])arents in Evanston. 
She has studied with some of the leading teachers of music in 
Chicago, and has acquired considerable reputation as a soprano 
singer. 

In personal appearance Winchell has changed but little, l)eing 
still slender and quick in moveiuent. He applies himself closely 
to bis business, never having taken a vacation, and usually work- 
ing until late at night. His weight has varied very little from 145 
pounds, and bis bealth. wbile never very good, was never better 
than now. 

Some things wbich bave left an impression on Wincbell's mind 
since leaving college : 

1. The narrow balls and narrower stairways in the old south 
building, where Greek met Greek when classes changed. 

2. Tbe uniform kindness and courtesy of Tutor Allen J. 
Curtis, in the class room as well as out of it. 

3. The thoroughness and clearness of the instruction given 
hy Professor Olney in matbematics. 

4. The ease witb wbich classes could pass tbrougb a recitation 
Avitb Tutor Spence. 

5. The good jolly times had ])y the D. K. E.'s in tbeir society 
hall Saturday ni^iits. 



234 Class of "70, University of Michigan. 



6. The fun we all had when we went around serenading our 
instructors and playing pranks at the close of the college vear. 

7. Singing with the University Glee Cluh, or as it was then 
generally called, the Glee Club. 

8. Preparing his junior oration and practicing on its deliverv. 

9. Going from his last recitation of the day to work at 
manual labor while the rest of his class went to the ball ground 
near the medical college for an hour of fun. 

10. Going down to Dr. Chase's printing estal)lishment Satur- 
day mornings to help mail the riik-crsify Chronicle. 

11. Sitting in the old chapel and hearing Professor Watson 
repeat astronomical formulae, and seeing him work out the most 
difficult ]M-oblems on the blackboard, which involved more mathe- 
matical knowledge than we could think of without having a head- 
ache. 

12. That class rush which began as we came out of chapel in 
the law 1)uilding and ended on the campus outside, when more 
than one of the faculty got roughly handled for interfering. 

13. The lectures given l)efore the Students' Lecture Associa- 
tion by such persons as Wendell Phillips, George William Curtis, 
Theodore Tilton. J. G. Holland. John G. Saxe, Frederick Doug- 
lass, E. P. \\diipple. Anna E. Dickinson. Horace Greeley. 

14. The Sunday afternoon lectures given by Dr. Cocker in 
the law lecture room. 

15. Sitting around on the campus in front of the law build- 
ing in ]\Iay and June of 1870 carving our names on our classmates'' 
canes. 

Mr. ^^'inchel^s present address is 160 Washington street, 
Chicairo. 



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236 



Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



Charles Gordon Wing, Ph.B., LL,B. 

Ludingfton, Mich. 

Born January2i,i846. Resided 
at P^ranklinville, Cattaraugus 
County. Xew York. Attended 
school at Rushford and Alfred 
Center. Served in the navy dur- 
ing the last two years of the war. 
After graduating taught school at 
.Manchester, Mich. Graduated at 
Ann Arhor in the law department 
in 1S73. Was married in that 
}ear to Jennie S. Poole, of Sharon, 
Mich. Came to Ludington in 
April, 1873. by appointment pro- 
cured by C. M. Wells, as inspector 
of harl)or improvements. Opened 
a law office late in 1873 and has been in practice since. \\'as ap- 
pointed judge of probate to fill a vacancy in 1875 and by election 
served until 1887. Was managing- owner of the water works from 
1889 to 1900, when they passed by sale to the city. Has been 
president of the Business Men's Association, of the County 
Agricultural Society and is now president of the Ludington State 
Bank, the leading financial institution of the county. He cleared 
up a farm of 200 acres near Ludington, which has been his resi- 
dence for 20 vears. He has seven children. 




Rev. Thomas Wylie, A.B. 

Died at Martin, Mich, April 3, J 877. 

He was boni at Martin, Mich., Dec. 25, 1847. His father, 
David Wylie, was a farmer and Thomas passed his childhood and 
\'outh assisting as he could in the rural pursuits of his parents. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 237 



His preparatory studies were pursued at Martin and at Kalama- 
zoo. He passed his freshman year at Kalamazoo College, and the 
first seven weeks of his sophomore }ear at Monmouth, 111., enter- 
ing the L^niversity of Michigan as sophomore in the year of '67. 
He was a member of the Alpha Nu literary society. 
He taught, as principal, in the union school at Schoolcraft, Mich., 
the year "70-71 ; entered the United Presbyterian Theological 
Seminary, at Newburgh, X. Y.. in September, "71 ; spent the sum- 
mer vacation of '']2, at his home, at Martin, Mich. ; preached some 
during the summer at Otsego and Allegan. He returned to the 
seminary at Newburgh in the fall of ''/2; spent the summer vaca- 
tion of 'yt)^ in Newburgh, devoting his time to the study of Hebrew 
and Theology, and completed his theological course in the spring 
of '74. He preached during the summer in the west of Iowa, and 
other states. In the autumn of '74, he was called to the pastorate 
of the United Presbyterian Church at West Hebron, Washington 
Co., N. Y. There was a membership of between 300 and 400, 
which, with the congregation, were scattered widely among the 
hills and valleys of that rugged old county. This rendered his 
pastoral duties severe, especially in the cold of winter. 

He was married August 3d, '75, to Miss Mary E. Lendrum, of 
Newburgh, and with her visited at Martin, imtil the end of 
August : then returned to his work. 

He continued in steady good health almost from his childhood 
till the month of February, "76. During that month, or the one 
preceding, while returning in a cold rain storm, several miles, from 
an evening temperance meeting, he became chilled and took a 
severe cold which settled on his lungs, and could not be shaken 
off. He was obliged in April to give up his work and rest, hoping 
to recover in a few weeks. His symptoms soon gave indications 
of incipient pulmonary consumption, and grew gradually more 
marked. In May, '76, he returned to his old home at Martin, to 
see if a change of air and scenery would benefit him. His wife 
joined him in July. From the time he first came home till his death, 
that relentless disease made slow but sure progress, sometimes re- 



228 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

laxing- apparently, but only to take a surer hold. He was confined 
to his bed during the latter part of the winter, grew weaker by 
degrees and finally died at Martin, in the home where he was 
bom. April 3d, 1877. He left no children. 

He was thoroughly in earnest and devoted to his work. No 
sermon did he attempt to preach without the most careful prepara- 
tion, and every duty was conscientiously performed. It is almost 
like an inspiration to remember his earnestness. His sermons were 
wonderfully eloquent and beautiful and, like his life, filled full of 
simple trust and piety. His short work in the ministry must have 
done g"ood. His trust in his Saviour seemed to grow more perfect 
as his body grew weaker. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 239 




Lucius Burrie Swift, Ph.M. 
Indianapolis, Ind. 

A short sketch of Mr. Swift 
appears on page 183 which was 
printed Ijefore his photograph 
was obtained. Some additional 
facts concerning his Hfe are here 
presented. Swift had six great- 
nncles in Washington's arniv and 
his grandfather, Jal^ez Aber, was 
wounded at h'ort Erie in the war 
of 1 81 2. He enHsted in the 
Federal army in April, 1861, in 
the 28th N. Y. Vol. Inf., but the 
mustering officer rejected him as 
])eing only 16 years old. He re- 
mained at home a couple of 
months and then borrowed money of a neighbor and paid his way 
to the regiment in Maryland and was there mustered in as 18 
years old and served the remainder of two years with that regi- 
ment. In 1864, when 20 years old he was offered a commission 
as captain of infantry, but refused it and re-enlisted in the ist N. 
Y. light artillery in which he served to the end of the war. 

Swift has devoted much time and great effort in advocacy of 
reform in the civil service. He supported Cleveland in his first 
campaign for the presidency. During the four years of his first 
administration Swift carried on a losing fight for the maintenance 
and spread of the merit system against the Voorheis-Hendricks in- 
fluence ; but the latter prevailed with Cleveland. In the next presi- 
dential campaign he vigorously opposed Cleveland on the stump 
and threw his influence in favor of the election of Harrison. He 
edited and published the Civil Service Chronicle for eight years, 
all the time without pay. He found it necessary to criticise the 
Harrison administration for failure to keep promises relating to 



240 Class of 'yo, University of Michigan. 



the merit system and tlie contest I'liially l)eeame extremely Ijitter. 
On this account in i8(j2 Swift stumped the state at;ainst Harri- 
son and lielped to carry the state for Clevehmd. 

In the meantime the merit system had everywhere made i^'reat 
proo-ress especially so after Theodore Roosevelt hecame Civil Ser- 
vice Commissioner. During- his second term ( 'leveland made 
sweeping additions to the classitied service, hut he hrst hlled the 
places transferred with Ins partisans, while Swift maintained tliat 
the places slioidd have heen vacated and then filled mider the 
merit system. This action of Cleveland's ])tit a great and un- 
necessary strain tipon the law and was an excuse for tricking the 
law when the Repuhlicans again returned to office. 

In 1896 Swift took the stump against liryan almost immediate- 
ly after his nomination and continued making speeches until elec- 
tion day, making sometimes three speeches a da_\' entirelv tipon 
financial (juestions. lie gave notice that with the defeat of Br)''an 
the publication of the Civil Service Chronicle would cease, the 
battle of the merit system having lieen won. A constanth" increas- 
ing law ])ractice made this uecessarv. 

lie has delivered many addresses before colleges and associa- 
tions relating chielly to the im]>rovement of the public service, 
lie rides a bicycle, pla)s golf and dances. lb- is i)articidarly 
proud of ]ta\ing bi'cu a soldier in the civil war, of having helped 
to establish the merit system, and of ha\ing helped to beat Uryau. 
ITe did not regard McKinley favorably, but lie stands b\- Roose- 
velt through thick and thin. 



Non-Graduate Members. 



Following ail' hioiiiapliiial sketches, so far as ohtaiiiahle, of tlie memheis of 
the class of '70, wlio were not graduated witli the chiss, hut some of whotii suli- 
sequently received their degrees from the University of Michigan or other Institu- 
tions of learnintr. 



George Washington Allyn, A.M., M.D. 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 

I k' was horn in riymoulh, 
Micliii^an, on Xovcnihcr 28th, 
I.S45. Ills fatluT, I loracc, was 
horn in ( onni'clirnt and luul the 
st'Iioolin^' a Horded hv a New 
l''.n.L;land lown of that daw The 
Allyn anrcstors canu' from Lon- 
don to Salrni, Mass., in \()^](), hut 
lool< U]) lands nndcr ro\-al ^rant 
in Now London, in 1652. cstab- 
lishino- ilir lionK' at what liecame 
Allyn's I'oint, ri^ht miles ahove. 
Up to the death of his father, in 
iSC)i, his yonlh had \)vvu nnevent- 
Inl, tinu' heini^- spent in >,eho<)L 
he enlisted as fifer, and thoui;ii lie 
could play the White Cockade and Bonaparte Crossing the Alps, 
he was counted out from heino- under age. ddiouo-h refused mus- 
ter, he followed the reginunt to Washington and entered govern- 
ment employ. 

With these savings he entered upon preparation for college at 
Ypsilanti, Mich., under that remarkahle teacher. Prof. Estahrook. 
In August, i<S64, he enlisted in the navy and was assigned to the 




Idle civil war hrt'aking out 



242 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



lower ^Mississippi Scjuadron. He was promoted to paymaster's 
clerk, which ])Osition he held tintil the war closed. Retun.ing- to 
Ypsilanti, his preparation was completed for the University of 
Michigan, which he entered in 1866 with the class of "70. Three 
bnsy and happy years were passed with this class. He was a 
member of the Literary Adelphi and was one of the speakers at 
the second Sophomore exhibition. Teaching for two years became 
a financial necessity. He had for these two years the school at 
Algonac, Mich. Returning he entered the class of 'ji, l)ut was 
with this class only four months, teaching four months during 
the senior year. 

After graduation Prof. Winchell asked him to assist in his 
department. The pay was so small that the position was given 
up at the end of the first year. Filling the position of professor 
of science in the high school at Fort Wayne, Ind., was his next 
work. 

The summer vacation of 1874 was spent in scientific study in 
the Agassiz school in lUizzard's Bay. 

The next vacation a trip over Europe was taken. A\'hile at 
Fort \\'ayne a museum was started and a lalwratory of eighteen 
working tallies in chemistry enabled the pupils to secure a year 
in practical chemistry as at Ann Arbor. In the fall of 1877 he 
entered with advanced standing the medical department of the 
university, being graduated in 1878. r>efore becoming estab- 
lished in medicine a good position as professor of natural science 
in the high school at Pittsburg was oifered. Six years were 
spent in this position. Dttring this time he also engaged in gen- 
eral practice and lectured on materia medica and liotany in the 
Pittsburg College of Pharmacy. 

He was married to Miss Jessie Smith, of Xorthville, Michi- 
gan, in 1879. His wife died two years later of pulmonary trouble. 

In 1883 Mr. AUyn married Aliss h^annie Forse, of Pittsburg, 
his present wife. No children. 

In 1884 he left the high school and teaching, and associated 
himself with Dr. J. A. Lippincott, then well established in the 



Dei'.\rt:ment of Literature, Science, and Arts. 243 



special practice of the eye and ear. In 1889. accompanied bv his 
wife, he went to lierlin and London for stiulv, and np(_;n his 
return he opened offices alone and has continued in prosperity 
and qood health ever since. He has a fine home in the best part 
of the city, h'or several }ears he has been secretary and prac- 
tical manai^er of the Academy of Science and Art of Pittsburg, 
and is now its president. He is a member of the Ophthalmological 
Society of the L^nited States, together with membership in the 
national, state, and county medical societies. 

]\Ir. Allyn is a member of the Duquesne Club, where, he says, 
he wotild be more than pleased to lunch with any memljer of 
i-.he famous class of '70. passing through his city. Frequent 
meetings of Dr. Allyn and Dr. T. C. Christy in Pittsburg have 
constantly kept the memories of '70 vividly before their minds. 

Dr. Allyn is a mem1>er of the Sons of the i\merican Revolu- 
tion and a member, though not very active, in the G. A. R. 

Two years ago he sj^ent a summer in England, preparing an 
illustrated lecture on "The Gothic Cathedrals in England" from 
original photographs. This lecture has been given many times in 
and about Pittsburg, and has received high encomiums from the 
press. 

Dr. Allyn says : "Though an utlander, I am happy to be 
numbered with those who entered the imiversity as the class of 

>•" 

His Post Office address is 515 Penn Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. 

Albion Alexander Andrews, B.S., M.D. 

Fargfo, N. Dak. 

He entered the University of ^lichigan from Perry, X. Y., in 
1866, with the class of "70. Was vice-president of the class the 
first year. In 1868 he entered Cornell University and was gradu- 
ated P). S. from that institution in 1870. Later he entered the 
medical department of the L'niversity of Michigan and received 
the degree of ^L D. in 1877. He married Miss Ada J. Plealey, a 



244- Class of 70, University of Michigan. 

classmate, who was graduated with him frum the medical de- 
partment of the university. He has practicetl medicine succcss- 
ftiUv for twenty }ears. He owns a sixteen hundred acre wheat 
and stock ranch twelve miles from Fargo. He has two hoys, hoth 
in the high school, and expects to send them to the Leland Stan- 
ford University. Says he often thinks of the old hoys and old 
times and hopes that he may have the pleasure of meeting them 
aeain. 



Abner Lewis Andrews. 

Died at Hot Springs, Cal, May 4, J 873. 

He entered the I'niversity of Michigan from ( )tishel(I, Me., 
in 1866. with the class of '70, remaining until 18(18. lie joined 
the Literary Adelphi. 

Sherman Sanford Avery, B.S. 
Died at Forest ville, N.Y., July 9, 1579. 

Was horn in 1850 at I'^orestville, X. '^'. He entered the Uni- 
versity of ^lichigan in the fall of 1867 and was with the class of 
'70 for one vear. became a memher df the Zeta Psi college fra- 
ternity and of the Alpha Xu literary society; was one of the 
speakers at the second Sophomore exhihition. In 1868 he went 
to Cornell I'niversity. from which he was graduated in 1870, re- 
ceiving the degree of li.S. Suhsequently he studied law and was 
admitted to practice in 1872. He was engaged in oil Inisiness 
from 1871 to 1874. He then took the position of cashier of the 
Argyle Savings Bank for two years. In 1875 he hecamc con- 
fidential legal adviser of the firm of H. L. Taylor & Co., dealers 
in oil properties, until his death in 1879. 

He married Mary A. Swift, of iM^restville. N. Y., June 23^ 
1873. •^'""^^ ^^^t one son and three daughters. 



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Albert Everton Baldwin, C.E. 
Newton, Kan. 

He entered tlie L'niversity of [Micbi^^an from AJjini^-ton, 111., 
in September, J.S66. witb tbe elass f)f '70, and continued for two 
3'ears. He subsequently continued bis studies and was gradu- 
ated with the class of '71. 

Jacob Beller. 

Died at Los Angfeles, Cal., December 10, t875. 

He entered tbe L'niversity of IMicbigan from Detroit in the 
fall of 1866, witb tbe class of 70, but remained only two years. 
Was a memljer (jf tbe i'hilrjzetian debating club. He left college 
to go to Europe for study. Later be went to California and 
died, of consumption, at the home of his classmate, James H. 
Blancbard, in Los Angeles. 

Henry Graves Bennett. 
Pasadena, Cal. 

He was born at Ann Arbor, 
Alicbigan, Sept. 6tb. 1847. His 
first school days were spent at a 
])rivate school, entering from 
wbicb into the public schools, 
passing through successfully all 
the departments and graduating 
fruni the high school in June, 
1866. In tbe autumn of that 
}ear be entered the University of 
Michigan with the class of '70. In 
consequence of failing health and 
acting in accordance with tlie ad- 
vice of his family physician and 
friends, be left college at the close 
of the first semester. On recovering his health somewhat, he 
entered the employ of tbe First Xational I'.ank of Ann Arbor 




246 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

and the Ann Arbor Savings Bank, remaining with these two 
institutions four years and gaining vahial)le experience. The 
sedentary Hfe and too close apphcation to Inisiness compelled him 
to seek an out-of-door life. After traveling a few years in Ohio, 
Pennsylvania and Delaware and finding neither business nor 
climate satisfactory, he determined to seek health and fortune in 
southern California. 

Leaving Ann Arbor C)ctober 9th, 1873. he arrived in Los 
Angeles October 2t,c\. Los Angeles was then a little city of six 
or seven thousand people. At this time a nuiuber of Lidiana 
people were tr}ing to organize a colony in order to purchase a 
large tract of land near Los Angeles, on which the members 
could establish homes and engage in fruit farming. He became 
interested in the enterprise and was one of the first members of 
the San Gal^riel Orange Grove Association. They organized in 
November, 1873. and in the spring of 1874, a few of them broke 
ground, l)uilt small houses and l)egan the planting of orchards 
and vineyards. Bennett had the pleasure of planting some of the 
first trees and vines and building the fourth house in the settle- 
ment. Soon after the organization of the colony, their first water 
company was formed, and in 1878 he was appointed secretary, a 
position he still holds. 

January ist, 1885, the Pasadena Iiank was incorporated and 
on May ist, 1886, was merged into the b^irst National Bank, of 
which Mr. Bennett has been a director from the beginning. He 
was a member of the first board of education in Pasadena ; also 
held for several years the position of deputy county assessor for 
the Pasadena district. 

Was married ( )ctober 5th, 1887, to the daughter of Dr. J. H. 
Lillie. of Los Angeles, and is now living at his home, 217 South 
Orange Grove Avenue, Pasadena, California. 

He sa}s that it has been his good fortune to see their colony 
grow and expand into a beautiful city of 12.000 inhabitants, noted 
for their intelligence, culture and wealth and having the pleasure 
of enjoying a climate, the loveliness of which they believe is not 
ecjualled by any other pcirtion of the l^iited States. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 247 

Darius Fremont Boughton^ M.D. 
Chicago^ III. 

He entered the literary department of the L^niversitv of Miehi- 
g-an from West Xovi, Alich., in the fall of 1866 with the elass of 
'70, and remained two years. He then changed to the medical 
de]:)artmenl, from which he was graduated in 1870. He is prac- 
ticing medicine at t,27, West Madison Street, Chicago, 111. 



Charles Andrew Bowman. 

Peoria, III. 

He was horn in Monroe, 
.Alich.. April 9, 1846. His father 
and mother with the children, 
Charles A., George A., and Por- 
tia E., went at an early day to live 
at ( )ntonagon, Mich., hut in i860 
moved to Peoria, 111. Charles A. 
prepared for college at Peoria 
high school and entered the Uni- 
\ersity of Michigan in the fall of 
1866 with the class of '70. After 
completing the course of study of 
the freshman year he concluded to 
drop the regular course and take 
up selected studies and finish in 
two years. During his second year he took a course in chemistry 
and pharmacy, with lahoratory work, receiving a diploma. On 
returm'ng to Peoria he entered the flrug store of B. F. Allies with 
whom he remained one }'ear, and then opened a drug store of his 
own. Has continued in the same husiness up to the present 
time. He never married. 




248 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

James Dewey Burr, C.E. 
Died at Topeka, Kan., May 5th, J 886. 

Was born in Allen, Allegany County, New York, Augnst 31st, 
1843. His mother died when he was nine years old and at the 
age of twelve he and his sister went to live with an aunt in Michi- 
gan. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the 4th Michigan 
Infantry and served his country faithfully for three years. The 
exposure incident to a soldier's life laid the foundation of ill 
health and was the cause ultimately of his death. In 1866 he 
entered the University of INIichigan and was a classmate of A. 
A. Robinson, Geo. B. Lake and T. J. Seely and between these four 
a friendship was then formed which truly existed unto death. 
Messrs. Robinson, Lake and Seely were graduated in 1869, but 
Mr. Burr not until 1871, as he was obliged to break in upon his 
studies in order to earn the necessary means to complete his col- 
legiate course. During 1868-9, ^^^ ^^'^^ with the class of '70. He 
was a member of the Alpha Nu literary society. 

In 1868 j\Ir. Burr was employed for a short time as a rodman 
on the Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw R. R., and in the autumn 
of 1869 he recived from Mr. W. B. Sears, the able chief engineer 
of the Flint and Pere ]\Iarquette R. R., the appointment as leveller 
on that road. At that time the Flint and Pere Marquette R. R. 
was constructed from East Saginaw to Averill, a distance of 
thirty-five miles. The proposed extension to Ludington — about 
110 miles — was through a heavy wooded covmtry and across the 
dividing ridges between the Saginaw and ^luskegon Ri\'ers on 
the east and the Muskegon and jMarquette Rivers on the west. 
The country was very sparsely settled. There were no public 
roads, so all provisions, camp fixtures, etc.. had to be borne on 
the liacks of men. Into this uninviting field of labor Mr. Burr 
was sent with a small party to discover the lowest gaps in the 
ridges or divides, the approaches thereto, to note the general char- 
acteristics of the country — in fact to gather the information neces- 
sary for the guidance of future operations. So successfully did 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 249 



he perform these (Uities that he was placed in charg-e of a full 
party on location and soon advanced to the responsihle position 
of first assistant engineer. 

Leaving the Flint and Pere ]\Iarqiiette R. R., he entered the 
service of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe R. R. Co. and took 
an active part in the final location from Dodge City to the west- 
ern boundary of the State of Kansas. L'pon the completion of 
location, ]\Ir. Burr passed to the Cincinnati Southern R. R.. where 
he was engaged first as resident engineer with headcjuarters at 
Danville, Kentucky, in charge of a very difficvilt piece of work. 
After its successful completion he was assigned to another sec- 
tion, with headquarters at Smith's Cross Roads in Tennessee. 
There he remained until 1875, '^vhen he resigned to accept the 
position of superintendent of bridges and buildings on the Atchi- 
son, Topeka and Santa Fe with headquarters at Topeka. 

He was selected as one of the assistants engaged upon the 
Iriangulation and other preliminary examinations for the cele- 
brated high bridge over the Kentucky River. This is one of the 
evidences of the high estimate of his professional abilities enter- 
tained by the Cincinnati Southern people. 

The duties of superintendent of bridges and buildings Mr. 
Burr performed in a manner acceptable to the company and with 
-credit to himself, yet he was anxious to return to the more con- 
genial duties of construction, and j\Ir. Robinson, the chief en- 
gineer, was desirous of having his valuable service. June 6th, 
1878, circular No. 9 was issued, announcing Mr. Burr's transfer 
to the engineering department, surveys and constructions. He 
at once went west to Trinidad, Colorado, where he established 
his office as Mr. Robinson's chief assistant in charge of construc- 
tion across the Raton IMountain in New Mexico to Las Vegas. 
When the road reached Las A^egas, early in July, 1879. ]\Ir. Burr 
look charge of a large party, his field of operation being the Rio 
Grande Valley and beyond, and for almost a year he v;as en- 
gaged upon surveys and locations. 

In 1880 Mr. I'urr resigned in order to engage in business with 



250 Class of ''jo, University of Michigan. 



1». L.antrv, of Stroni; City, Kansas, as contractor of masonry, the 
name of the firm I)ein^- Lantr}' and llurr. l"he firm was exceed- 
ingly successful and did a great deal of work n(jt onl\- on the 
main line of the A., T. (K: S. F. R. R., hut on all the leased and 
lateral lines. The ])artnershi]) continued for almost f(jur vears. 

Mr. llurr was one of the incorporators of the hirst National 
Hank of Topeka, in 1881, and until his death served continuously 
as one of the directors. P'rom Xovem!)er, '82, to January, '84, he 
filled the high and responsihle position of ])resident. I-'ailing 
health then ohliged, him to resign. lie then ])urchased a farm in 
the vicinity of Topeka with the intention of devoting himself to- 
the raising of fine and hUjoded stock: hut death j)revented the 
consummation of his ])lans. In 1885, Mr. Ihu'r hegan to rapidly 
grow weaker. He passed a portion of the hjllowing wintrr at a 
health resort in .\ew York state, hut without deriving the l)enetit 
expected. Jn the spring he returned to 1"o])eka and ahout mid- 
night of .\Ia\- 5th, 1886, his spirit i)asse(l away. ( )ne more victim 
of that dread destroyer, consum])tion. 

Mr. r.urr's life was indeed a useful one. lie devoted liimself 
with energ}- and industry not onl\- to his chosen profession, hut 
to all of his husiness tmdertakings. lie was a man of u!i(|ues- 
tionahle integrity, faithful in every trust and sincere in his friend- 
shi])s and attachments. I le was a close and attentive student and 
a writer whose ccjmmunications to the American Societv ol Civil 
Engineers (of which society he was a memher), and to \arious 
engineering journals, while not freipient, yet always hore unmis- 
takahle evidence of study and thorough ac(juaintance with the 
suhject discussed. His memory will always he fondly treasured 
hy his many friends and husiness associates. 

(Jctoher 16th, 1877, Mr. Uurr was married to Miss Jennie 
Van Meet at White Pigeon, Michigan. ( )ne child, a son, Alhert 
Rohinson llurr, was !)orn t(j them, hut died in the January follow- 
ing the death of his father. 



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Delos Allen Chappell. 
Denver, Col. 

1 lie suljjcct of this skctcli was 
I)(ini A])ril _'<)tli, 1846. on a farm 
in tlic town of Williamson, Wayne 
(Onnty. New N'ork, where he re- 
siilnl with his parents nntil the 
snnimer of 1S52. when the family 
nio\eil to Aliehi^an, locating" on a 
farm six miles north of Kalama- 

At tile a.^e of fifteen he entered 
tlu' ])i-e])arator\' department of 
( llivet (,'olleL;'e, remainini^' there 
I'linr years, and then went to 
Shnrlleft I'olle^e in I'pper Alton, 
111., entering- the freshman elass. 
In the fall of 1867 he went to .\nn Arhor and, sneeessfnlly 
passin.i;- the examinations, was admitted to the I'niversity of 
Miehii^an in tlie sophomore elass of '70, in the seientihe depart- 
ment, fnlly intending- to complete the course; hnt in the snnimer 
of the followiiiii^ }ear, his father meeting;- with an accident which 
incapacitated him for active manat^ement of the farm, n.iade it 
necessary for him to ahandon the collet;'e course and take his 
father's ])lace. This was a i^reat disa])])ointment at the time, and 
is ]jrol^ahly resj)onsil)le for the change from what had he en in- 
tended as a ])rofessional life to an active and successful husiness 
career. At eoUet^e he joined the Kappa I'hi Lamhda fraternity. 
Mr. Cha])])ell continued in the management of the farm until 
the winter of 1872, when, owiui^ to the hij^h price of land, the 
low price of farm products and hit^h rate of interest prevailino- 
at that time, it was deemed hy him ad\isal)le to make a chant^e. 
The farm was too larme to sell readily and was exchans^ed for a 
smaller one, and this in turn for another of less acreage ; and in 




252 Class of 'yo, University of Michigan. 

each exchange a first mortgage was taken to secure payment of 
the difference in vahie, until finally mortgages were held on four 
farms, all bearing ten per cent, interest. In 1873 ]\Ir. Chappell 
assisted in the construction of a water supply system for the city 
of East Saginaw, jNJichigan, and in 1874 went to Chicago and 
opened an office as an engineer and contractor for the construc- 
tion of waterworks. He maintained the Chicago' office until 1883, 
during which time he constructed 22 different works, among the 
most prominent being those at Evanston, Charleston, Eilchfield 
and Lake View in Illinois; ]\Iuskegon. Mich.. Michigan City, Ind., 
Racine and Madison, Wis., Taunton, Mass., Pawtucket, R. I,, 
Bethel and Wolcottville, Conn. In 1879 he built, as a private 
investment, a system of waterworks for the supply of Trinidad, 
Colo. \\\ connection with this plant and for the sake of utilizing 
surplus power, he established a stone saw mill and lathes for 
turning grindstones. He acquired, in 1882, an interest in a 
coal property which was consolidated with the stone sawing 
works and incorporated under the name of "The Consolidated 
Coal & Stone Company." In 1883 he purchased all of the stock 
of the consolidated company and abandoned his Chicago office, 
devoting his entire time to the Colorado interests. In this year 
he also purchased something over one-fourth of the capital stock 
of The I'irst National Bank of Trinidad, and was elected director 
and vice-president, which interest and position he still holds. 

1lie coal mines of the consolidated company were operated 
profitably until 1886, when the city of Trinidad refusing to ex- 
tend the right to maintain its tracks on certain streets and alleys 
in the cit\-, the coal jM-opcrty was leased to the Colorado Coal & 
Iron Company on a royalty of ten cents per ton and minimum 
output of 300 tons per day. Being relieved of the care of this 
]:)roperty, in the summer of 1887, he purchaserl a controlling in- 
terest in a tract of 7,000 acres of tmdeveloped coal land, and pro- 
ceeded to the construction of necessary railroad tracks and equip- 
ment, and, before it was ready to operate, leased it also to the 
Colorado Coal & Iron Compau}', on a royalty of ten cents per ton 



Dl-ZPAKT-MENT OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ArTS. 253 

and minimum output of 1,000 tons per day. In 1888 lie pur- 
chased another large coal property and organized what is now 
known as The A ictor Fuel Company. This company has heen 
consolidated with several smaller coal and coke companies until 
it now has over 2,000 men employed and a daily output ot 4,000 
tons of coal and 350 tons of coke. 'Sir. Chappell has been and 
still is president and manager of the company. 

In 1897 the city of Trinidad purchased the waterworks, and 
in the spring of 1898, ]\Ir. Chappell, with his wife and two chil- 
dren, moved to Denver and at the same time transferred the gen- 
eral offices of The \'ictor Fuel Company to that city. In addi- 
tion to the several enterprises above mentioned, Mr. Chappell is 
director and vice-president of The Wichita A^alley Railway Com- 
pany ; president of The Union Accident Insurance Company, and 
vice-president of the Capital National Bank of the City of Denver. 



Varnum Barstow Cochran, M.A. 
Died at Marquette, Mich., May 9th, 1896. 

Was born in Argentine Town- 
ship, Genesse Co., Mich., Dec. 5th, 
1844. Reared on his parents' 
farm, ( John R. and Alary Eliza- 
beth, whose maiden name was 
b letcher ) and received from them 
habits of industry, and literary 
tastes. His mother wrote both 
prose and poetry and contributed 
to periodicals of the day. He be- 
gan teaching school at the age of 
15, teaching winters and helping 
his father on the farm summers. 
He went tO' Marquette, Mich., 
when he was 19 >'ears old, and 
taught a summer school at that place. "V. B.," as he was famil- 
iarly called in later life, began his school life at Linden, Mich., 




254 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

which he al\va}'s cahed his home, as that portion of Ar<4'entine 
was set off into the school district of Linden, it l^'in^; caily a 
mile and a half from the villa.q'e. He next went to school at 
henton. Mich., and from there he went to the high school at 
Ann Arhor. paying his wa}- by services rendered. Here he pre- 
pared himself to enter the L'niversity of Michigan in the class of 
'70. Was in the nniversity two years. The second year he was 
able to take up some of the stndies of the junior year. He was 
chairman of the first formal meeting of the class of '70 at which 
class organization was perfected. His ambiticm to gain the 
coveted di])loma in the shortest space of time caused his health 
to fail. .\t this time he received a telegram from the school 
director at }^larquette, Mich., to go there and complete the school 
given up by the teacher. Dr. A. 1>. 1 'aimer, of Ann Arbor, ad- 
vised him to acce]:)t the offer, which he did. He bade good bye 
to the intimate friendshij) of classmates and professors. He 
taitght several terms in the Marquette schools. He was called 
to the superintendency of the Xegaunee schools and while there 
he was appointed, bv ( iovernor Jerome, superintendent of public 
instruction, to fill the vacancy caused l)y the resignation of Hon. 
C. A. Gower. This term was followed b}' his election to the 
of^ce of superintendent of public instruction by an overwhelm- 
ing majorit\'. He was also api)ointed by the ( iovernor on char- 
ities and corrections for Marquette Cotnit}-, December i, 1882, 
and was a memljer of the Board of .\orthern .\s_\-lum at Traverse 
City. Mr. C"ochran was honored 1)\- the L'niversity of Michigan, 
President Angell conferring upon him the degree of Master of 
Arts, which he prized above all other gifts. Mr. Cochran re- 
signed the superintendency of i)ublic instruction to accept the 
office of Register of the Land Office at Man(uettc, Mich., under 
President Arthur's administration. Circumstances seemed to 
force 3*lr. Cochran into the busy pursuits of business rather than 



DliPARTiMENT OF LITERATURE. SCIENCE, AND ArTS. 255 



into his chosen profession of the law, which lie had cherished 
from liis youth up. Air. Cocliran traveled a ijood deal, visitini;- 
luiropc and nearly all ]>arts of the L^nited States. His last trip 
was to refrain his health, i^'oino- to southern California durin^- the 
winter of 1895, returniui:;- to Marquette to die of ih-iglit's Dis- 
ease, on May 9, 1896, aged 52. He died in the house where he 
had lived for 27 years. He was never married. He was a man 
of ])ersonal magnetic ]>ower and drew around his bachelor home 
friends who were life-long in their love and respect for his amial)le 
and upright character, the soul of honor. In his large Ijusiness 
interest, he always found time to give his sym])ath\- to those in 
affliction and help of every description to those who sought his 
advice and aid. Mr. Cochran was followed to the cemeterv at 
Alanpiette by the largest concourse of people, cjf all classes, that 
had ever collected in Marquette County up to the date of his 
death. 

His l)rother. Dr. Clarence \\ Cochran, of West branch, Mich., 
is the only sur\iving member of the family. He entered the 
University of Michigan with the class of '71. but remained only 
■one year. He sul)sec|uently was graduated from I'.ellevue A/Ied- 
ical College, Xew York City. His l)rother, George E. Cochran, 
was graduated with '72, University of Michigan. Died at Kala- 
mazoo, Mich., in 1880. His brother, John Cochran, died at 
Ltiverne, Minn., 1880. Jfjhn and George were lawyers. 



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Class of '70, University of Michigan. 




Edward Everett Darrow* 
Chicago, III. 

He was born at Meadville, 
Pa., October 28tb, 1846. Three 
or four years thereafter the fam- 
ily removed to Cleveland, Ohio,, 
and thence, about 1853, to Kins- 
man, Ohio. \\'hich, from then on, 
became their settled home. 

Much (if his earliest study, es- 
pecially in languages, was done at 
home under his father's supervis- 
ion. From September, 1862, to 
December, 1864, he attended the 
Kinsman Academy, leaving at the 
latter date for Ann Arbor, where 
he entered the junior preparatory 
class at the Ann Arbor high school. He was graduated from it, 
in regular course, in June, '66, and entered the University of 
Michigan with the class of '70. He was elected one of the editors 
of the Oracle in sophomore year; was one of the speakers at the 
first Sophomore exhibition ; was elected one of the editors of the 
University Chronicle for junior }ear. 

Near the close of the sophomore year he was obliged to sus- 
pend his college work on account of failure of the eyes. He re- 
turned home, hoping that rest and treatment would restore them.. 
Their progress, however, was very slow, so he determined tO' go 
abroad, feeling that the lecture system of foreign universities 
would allows him to study without much demand upon them. 
He sailed for Europe the latter part of August, '71, spending the 
autumn in England. He underwent an operation on his eyes in 
London, which resulted in their recovery. In January, 72. he 
went to Paris and remained until May — using much of the time 
in listening to lectures at the Sorbonne. He spent the summer 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 257 



in Switzerland and tlie scIkhiI year of "72-'73 at the L'niversity of 
llerlin. In the snnimer of '73 he made the tour of Italy and 
thence hack to I'aris, where he spent the autumn in com])anv with 
classmates Lovell and I'demini^-. 

He returned home in December, 'y^t- Shortly afterward he 
took U]) teachin!:^' as a profession. Commencing" with September, 
'75, he taught two years at Andover, ( ). In 'yy he went to 
Springfield, 111., where he became assistant in the high school 
there, which position he held for six years. Then he went to 
Chicago as assistant in the South Division hig-h school, which 
position he still occupies (December, 1902). 

The death of his mother took place in July, 'y2. while he was 
in Switzerland. His father is living yet. To them both in equal 
measure he considers himself indebted for all he has accomplished 
in the world. June 30th, 1889, he married Miss Helen Kelchner, 
of Springfield, 111. They spent the summer in Europe, returning' 
for the opening of the schools in the fall. Thev have one child, 
Karl K., born November 26th, 1891. 

Darrow attended the reunions of "80, "90 and '95, but was un- 
al)le to get away for the one of 1900. 

Such is a brief outline of the outward life — the usual outline 
that represents its hero as traveling along such and such an avenue 
of human activity toward some end called a goal, the measure of 
his success in life being measured by how far he succeeds in 
reaching" it. P)Ut the writer realizes that this reveals no glimpse 
whatever of the inward life of thought and feeling, which, after 
all, is the only part of life that has any significance for the one 
who lives it. 

And as the record of this inner life is that portion that the 
writer himself would read with deepest interest in the lives of his 
classmates, so he will not hesitate to indicate his early impulses, 
how they were modified l)y circumstances and what interpreta- 
tion he sets on the result. 

The i"eaction of his early environment U])on him he feels was 
strong enough to demand special mention. His father was an 

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258 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



enthusiastic lover of books and especially of the classics, and had 
forced his way throug-h to a liberal education in spite of every 
adverse condition. Emigrating" as a boy from New York into 
Ohio in the late ■20's, he entered a world where there seemed 
little opportunity for anything except hard pioneer work. Marry- 
ing' before a college course had really been reached, he supported 
his constantly increasing family for six years of study, by work 
at his trade. I'rom this daily struggle for bread he was never 
thereafter able to free himself long enough to get rooted in the 
literarv and professional life that he would have loved so well. 
This, however, never chilled his ardor in the pursuit of knowl- 
edge, nor made him waver in the determination that his children 
should have the chance denied to him. So, though the days were 
given to toil, the evenings were always reserved for books. He 
was interested in every political and social cjuestion of the day 
and the children could not avoid taking interest in them either. 
In the "so's", where the writer's recollections start, was the fer- 
menting period of many "reforms", especially of "abolitionism" 
and "women's rights" wherein his father was deeply interested. 

^^'hen the family came to Kinsman, it was to go upon a farm. 
From this time, the period of his earliest recollections, the forma- 
tive period oi the writer's life begins. His acquaintance with 
books and his love for them, as well as his interest in any subject 
of which the book might treat, dates back to his first memories. 
Then, as both a counterbalance, and yet, too, as a support of this 
interest in an ideal world (for lack of a better term), came his 
life in the real world of the farm. 

Forests of oak, beech, maple and hickory with frequent chest- 
nut trees were upon it and around it, while through it all ran a 
stream ( which a little later was to turn the mill-wheel for his 
father's factory) through forest and pasture and meadow and 
finally close l\v the house. Though the farm was disposed of 
and a factory built later, yet it was upon the same ground, so the 
residence and the associations remained unchanged. A large 
part of the work still was out door — cutting the trees in the woods 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 259 

in winter — hauling' them to the mill for the spring freshets — then 
the sawing-, the turning", ete. — every stage of the operation was a 
pleasurable part of life. So vividly and so tenaciously were 
every aspect of these years imprinted on his mind, that from 
Homer down, he believes there is scarcely a pastoral picture in 
literature, of stream or forest or meadow, of the varying" moods 
of the days or of the seasons which does not mirror back ag'ain 
his own personal experience. 

Under such inlluences and among- such surroundings he re- 
mained until he went to Ann Arl)or. That his sentiments, views 
and aims were in great measure formed during- this time, he 
realizes through the slightness of the changes the succeeding years 
have brought. He felt then the fullness of enjoyment that there 
was in the mere being alive and open to the influences of nature, 
books and fellow-men. As he looked into the future, while he 
might ho]ie to become famous, he never thought of becoming 
rich, at least never of taking up any vocation with that ])urpose 
in view. 

The high school and imiversity years at Ann Arbor need no 
comment. The acquaintances that he made there he will always 
treasure as among the nearest and dearest of his life. Looking 
back upon it from later life he feels that he made a mistake in 
keeping too close to liooks at the expense of a closer intercourse 
with a wider circle of classmates and other friends. 

When the failure of his eyes took place he realized, half im- 
consciously, he had been relying on taking up teaching at the 
end of his course as the most congenial employment. Xow that 
he was liable to be disappointed in it, he felt that no other work 
would ha^■e been as pleasurable, solving at once the problem of 
making a living and at the same time allowing his continued 
dwelling in the "flowery fields of literature" and his continued 
progress in the paths of study and investigation. 

However, his years of sojourn in Europe (which otherwise 
would not have come to him) prepared him all the better for 
this work liesides making it clearer to him that he was making 



260 Class of 70, University of Michigan. 

no mistake in choosing- it. Of those years al)roa(l one portion 
only must not be left nnmentioned here — the meeting with Lovell 
and Fleming in Paris and the autumn spent together there. What 
new fascination the brilliant city took on when seen under the 
cumulative influence of mutual sympathy, and how few the places 
there not linked inseparal)lv with the friends in whose presence 
they were seen ! Yet. through it all a deep strain of sadness runs 
at the thought that of the number Lovell is with us here no longer! 

In 1877, on the invitation of Dawson, who was then teaching" 
at Springfield, Darrow came to Illinois. To Dawson he considers 
himself indebted for obtaining a position in the Springfield high 
school and also in great part for becoming settled in work in 
Chicago, six years later. 

In this twenty-seventh year of work in his profession he sees 
no reason to regret the choice of work that he made, and feels 
that his success has lieen fully commensurate with his deserts. 

Life to him has l)een and continues to be richly worth living 
and, though he sees things in his past that he would change if he 
had the opportunity to choose a second time, he still feels rhat he 
would l)e likelv to make as many new mistakes as he would rectify 
old ones and so is willing to rest it where it is. 

His present address is 6036 JeiTerson Ave., Chicago, 111. 

John Foster Eastwood, A.M., Ph.D. 

Georgetown, Ky, 

He entered the Universitv of Michigan, in Septeml)er. 1866, 
with the class of "70. but remained with the class only one year. 
He then entered the class of '71, with which he was graduated 
A.B. In 1872 he received the degree of A.Al. from the univer- 
sity. He was graduated from the school of pharmacy of the 
university in 1874, receiving the degree of Ph.C, and in 1887 he 
received from his alma mater the degree of Ph.D. Has been 
professor of chemistry and biology in Georgetown College since 
i! 



Department of Litekatuke, Science, and Arts. 261 

Frank Emerick 
Alpena, Mich. 

He entered the L'niversity of Michis^an with the elass of '70, 
in the fall of 1866. hut remained only two years. He joined the 
Zeta Psi fraternity and was one of the editors of the Oracle in 
sophomore year. He entered the law department of the univer- 
sity in 1873, remainino" two years. He was suhsequently ad- 
mitted to the har and entered upon the practice of the law. Many 
years ago he served a term of six years as circuit judge in Michi- 
gan, and in 1899 he was again elected and is now serving a sec- 
ond term in the same capacity with residence at Alpena, Mich. 

Hamline James Gardner. 

Died at Flint, Mich., October 25, I87J. 

He entered the University of Michigan in Septcml)er, 1866, 
with the class of '70. He remained only two' years. Was a 
member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. 

Willis Gaylord Graham. 

Died at Highlands, N. C, December 9, 1886. 

He entered the University of ^Michigan with the class of '70, 
in the fall of 1866, but remained only one year. 

Rev. Frank Norton Greeley. 
Berkeley, Cal. 

Was born May 6, 1850, at Chicopee Falls, Mass. His father, 
Stephen S. N. Greeley, was a Congregational minister. His 
mother was Sarah Barker Curtis. He prepared for college at 
Grand Rapids, Mich., and entered the University of Michigan 
with the class of '70, but remained oiily two years. After leav- 



262 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

ing Ann Arlnir he engaged in lousiness a few years and in the 
meantime studied theology privately. Afterwards he attended 
Auburn Theological Seminary at Auburn, N. Y. Was ordained 
to the Congregational ministry at ( )rwell, Oswego Co.. X. Y., 
November 13, 1877. after preaching several years as a licentiate. 
His early pastorates were at A olney, Orwell and New Haven, N. 
Y., later at Edgartown, Mass. Because largely of ill-health, he 
left active pastoral work in 1886, and has served churches, so far 
as he has preached, as "pulpit supply" ever since. His present 
home is Berkeley, Cal., having gone to California in 1892 as a 
health-seeker. His life is not given entirely to ministerial duties 
and he says that the hope of a return to the continuous or settled 
pastorate is not entirely abandoned. 

He was married ]\Iay 6, 1873, to Anna Cheney Buckhout, at 
Oswego, N. Y. His living children are Arthur White, wdio is a 
graduate of Stanford University, and William Buckhout Greeley, 
who is a graduate of the University of California. He buried a 
young son, Fred Curtis, in 1882. Arthur White Greeley received 
the degree of Ph.D. from Chicago University and is now profes- 
sor of zoology at Washington University, St. Louis, and William 
Buckhout Greeley is studying forestry (post-graduate work) at 
Yale. 

Rev. Frank N. Greeley's present address is Berkeley, Cal. 



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263 



Frank Gunnison, LL.B. 

Erie, Pa. 

He was Ijorn at Erie, Pa., Feb- 
ruary 2, ]848. His father was a 
])racticinj;- attorney in that citv. 
i->ank Gunnison attended the 
pubHc schools in Erie and the 
Ju-ie Academy. In 1866 he en- 
tered the University of ]\Iichigan 
with the class of '70, continuing 
with it only one year. In the fall 
of 1869 he entered the class of '70 
in Harvard Law School, from 
which he was graduated in June, 
] 870. receiving the degree of 
LL.1'>. He entered at once upon 
the practice of law at Erie, suc- 
cessfully conducting cases in the various courts, including the 
Supreme Court of the state and the courts of the L^nited States. 
He was called upon to serve the public in the city council, the 
school board, the board of trustees of Erie Academy, and in 1886 
was elected as I'resident Judge of the Sixth Judicial District of 
Pennsylvania. This important position was al)ly filled b}- him 
for the term of ten }ears expiring January i, 1897. He was 
urged to continue his honorable record on the bench, l)ut pre- 
ferring to be numbered with the practitioners at the bar, he re- 
opened his law office, which had 1)een ck^sed for a decade, and 
ever since has been enjoying a lucrative practice. 

He married Lila L. Lowry, of Erie, September 5, 1872. They 
have one son, ]\1. P. (iunnison, born August 13, 1873. 

Judge Gunnison enjo}s a delightful home in Erie, wears his 
well-earned honcjrs modestl}', and is taking life philosophicallv. 




264 



Class of '70, University of Michigan. 




James Dudley Hawks. 
Detroit, Mich. 

Was born at Jkiffalo, N. Y., 
October 13. 1847. His father's 
name was Thomas Sidney Hawks 
and his mother's naine was Hes- 
ter Ann ( La}ton ) Hawks. He 
])repare(l for collep^e at Buffalo 
big-h school and entered the Uni- 
versity of Michigan in September, 
1866, with the class of '70. Was 
a member of the Delta Kappa Ep- 
silon fraternity and of the Liter- 
ary Adel])hi. He continued with 
the class only two years and then 
devoted himself to a preparation 
for a successful business career. 
He entered railway service h'ebruary ist, 1870, and was con- 
secutively to 1875. assistant eng^ineer Buffalo Division, Lake Shore 
& Alichigan Southern Railway; 1875 to 1878. assistant engineer 
Erie Division: and 1878 to September i. 1881. assistant engineer 
Lake Shore Division, same road; September i, 1881, to July 1, 
1883, superintendent construction Xew York, West Shore & 
Buffalo Railroad; July i, 1883, to A])ril, 1884, engineer mainte- 
nance of way, same road; April, 1884, to ( )ctober, 1892, chief 
engineer Michigan Central Railroad; ( )ctober i, 1892, to October, 
1893, general manager Detroit Citizen's Street Railway; Xovem- 
ber I, 1893, to February i, 1895, manager Detroit, r)ay City & 
Alpena Railroad; l*"el)ruary 1, 1895, to November, 1896, vice- 
president and general manager Detroit & Mackinac Railway; 
November, 1896, to date, president and general manager, same 
road; is also president Detroit, Ypsilanti. Ann Arbor & Jackson 
Electric Railway and the Grand Rapids. Grand Haven & Muske- 
gon Electric Railwav, and the Lansing Citv Electric Railwav- 



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265 



]\Ir. Hawks is also a member of the American Society of Civil 
Engineers and of the Institution of Civil Engineers of (ireat 
Britain. 

He is married and has the following nametl children : .Vlicc 
Cooke Hawks, Edward Alleston Hawks, James Russell Hawks, 
and Clarion 1 lawks. 



Rev. Eben Lcander Hill, A.B., B.D. 
Kansas City, Kansas. 

Was horn December 24th, 
1843, in a log bouse on a farm in 
sight of Lake Ontario, in Huron, 
(Wolcott P. ().) Wayne Co., N. 
Y., being the youngest of nine 
children. His parents were Eben- 
ezer Hill and Nancy Fuller, both 
of Xew England stock, of which 
some were farmers, soldiers and 
sailors ser\-ing in the revolution- 
ary war. 

J')orn of fighting stock on l)oth 
sides, it was but natural tliat the 
subject of this sketch should be- 
come a soldier. At the hrst call 
for volunteers, by President Lincoln, in 1861, he enlisted in the 
27th N. Y. Infantry, from which he was discharged soon after 
the first battle of Ihill Run. Recovering from the illness for 
which he was discharged, he entered the (j8th X. Y. Infantry. At 
the battle of b'air ( )aks or Seven Pines he was shot through the 
right lung, made a prisoner and lodged in Libby I'ri.son May 
31, 1862. Removed to Belle Isle a few weeks later and exchanged 
August 3, 1862. The wound not healing, he acce])tcd his dis- 
charge, came home, went to St. Clair, Michigan, where he pre- 
pared for college, entering the Cniversity of Michigan with the 




266 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



class of '69, attending' but one year. The sophomore year was 
taken with the class of '70. He was elected vice-president of the 
class for that year. After a two years' absence from the uni- 
versity on account of the breaking- out of the old wound, which 
required some ten or twelve surgical operations, he joined the 
class of '^2 with wliich he was graduated with the degree of 
A.B. He took a three years' course in ( )berlin Theological Sem- 
inar}-, falling out one year to superintend the Fentonville, Alich., 
schools, but taking- the degree of B.D. in 1876. 

His first pastorate was over the Congregational church in 
Armada, Mich. After a year's service he was called to a Home 
Missionary field in Kansas, where he married Marie A. Robin- 
son, niece of the late ex-governor, Charles Robinson. Seven 
children were born of this marriage: Clyde Robinson, Lena 
Fuller, F.ben Powers, Alfred ]\lorse, Wayne h'inney and Thane 
Edwards (twins) and (iladys Marie A. Hill. 

In 1879 ''^ '^^'^^ called to the pastorate of the Congregational 
church in ( )lney, 111., where he remained about two years. He- 
served the Congregational churches in West Chicago and Nepon- 
set. 111., two years each. The next four years were passed with 
the Congregational church in Rosemond, 111. I'^rom this field he 
was called to the Sunday school work in southern Illinois in con- 
nection with the Congregational Sunday School and Publishing 
Society, residing in Anna, 111. Two years later he was called to 
the Congregational church in Altona, 111., which he served al)OUt 
three years. 

iM'om this place, Alay 9, 1892, his wife passed to her "home- 
over there", whither Thane Edwards, one of their twins, had gone 
from Anna. 111., two years before. 

In July, 1895, '^c moved to Kansas Cit-\-. Kansas, where he- 
supplied churches occasionally. In ( )ctober of this year he mar- 
ried Minne S. Watts, of Xeponset, 111. Three children were born 
of this marriage, viz. : Xcil Watts, Iris Susan and Hazel 
Henrietta Hill. 

He supplied the Chelsea Place Congregational church for a 



DeparTxMext of LiTERATURii, Science, and Arts. 2G7 

year, from which he was called to the chair of Greek in Kansas 
City University and Theological Seminary, which position he 
still holds. 



Frank Clair Hill, M.D. 

Died at Milwaukee, Wis., October 17, 1892. 

^Ir. Mill entered the L'niversity of ^Michigan from W'anpun, 
Wis., in the fall of 1867, as sophomore in the class of '70, bnt 
remained onh- one year. He snb-seqiiently entered the medical 
department of the nniversity and was graduated in 1874. For 
several vears prior to his death he had been practicing medicine 
at Milwaukee, ^\'isconsin. He died at Milwaukee, October 7, 
1892. 



James Campbell Holliday, M.E. 
Died at Buffalo, N. Y., October J, 1898. 

Was born at Erie, Pa., November 5, 1845. Entered the Uni- 
versitv of Michigan from Xorth Springfield, l^a.. in 1866. with 
the class of "70 and was with the class during his freshman and 
sophomore years, but was graduated with the class of '69. He 
was a member of the Alj^ha Xu literary society. Was with the 
Milwaukee Iron Manufacturing Co.. Milwaukee, Wis., 1870-72; 
was engaged sul)sef|ueut]\- in real estate Inisiness in Minneapolis. 

He married Miss Mary Rice, of St. Paul, September 16, 1884. 
She died August 31. 1887, leaving one child, Grace Lillian Hol- 
lister, born January 2. 1887. He died at Buffalo, X. Y.. October 
I, 1898. 



268 Class of ''jo, University of Michigan. 



Joseph Columbus Hosteller, B.S. 

Decatur, III. 

Born July 14. 1846, in Lawrence Co.. Ind. His father's name 
was Daniel losephus Hostetler and his mother's. Susan Mary 
(Newland) Hostetler. Joseph C. prepared for college at Ann 
Arhor high school. He entered the University of Michigan in 
the fall of 1866. with '70 and remained two years, and then he 
A\ent to I'nion College, Schenectady. X. Y.. from which he was 
graduated in 1871. He then taught school one year. Sul)se- 
quently read law in the office of lulen & ( )(lor at Decatur, 111., 
and was admitted to i)ractice in all the courts of Illinois hv the 
Illinois Supreme Court at Springfield, at the Januar}- term. 1875, 
since which time he has heen following his profession at Decatur. 
He was never married. Says he has done well and has .-i com- 
petence, hut prefers to wear out rather than to rust out and there- 
fore continues in the harness. 



Samuel Rodgers Hurford. 

Chicago, III. 

Was horn near I'.rownsville. Pa.. January 14, 1849. ^i^ pa^"" 
ents were Idiomas and l^leanor Hurford. He prepared for col- 
lege at ( )ttawa. Ill; entered the Cniversit}- of Michigan with class 
of '70. in September, 1866, but remained with the class only two 
years. Was a member of the Alpha Nu literary society. He 
was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1879 and since that time has 
been practicing law in Chicago. He married Jennie Munch. 
February 4, 1881. They have six children, two boys and four 
girls. His i)resent atUlress is 120 Ran(lol])h Street, Chicago, 111. 



DliPARTMENT OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ArtS. 269 



Rev. James Edward Jacklin, A.M., B.D. 

Detroit, Mich. 

Was l)()rn in the Township of 
( ),i^(len, Lewance Co., Mich., Jan. 
I, 1847. tlis parents were A\'ill- 
iani T. and Mary A. Jackh'n, who 
moved to Detroit when he was 
(|nite yonno-. Here he attended 
the pul)Hc schools until fourteen 
_\ears of ao^e and then filled posi- 
tion as clerk in a store frjr four 
years. (Jn resuming his stud- 
ies he completed the course in the 
Detroit high school, receiving a 
diploma, and entered the Univer- 
sity of Michigan with the class of 
'70 and remained one vear. He 
was elected historian of the class for that year. In the fall of 
'67 he took charge of the departments of Latin and Greek in the 
Detroit high school, and held that position until januarv ist, 
1874, when he hegan preparation for entering Boston Theolog- 
ical Seminary, from which, after two years of close studv, lie was 
graduated in 1876. While in the seminary, in 1875 he entered 
the ministry of the [Methodist Episcopal Cdiurch, preaching in 
Saginaw City during "75 and '76, spending a portion of the first 
year in Boston closing his course in theology. He was pastor of 
a church in Xorthville, Mich., during '"jy, '78 and "79; in Monroe 
during '80, '81 and '82; in Bay City during ''^},, '84 and "85; in 
Flint during '86, '87, '88 and '89. The two churches in Bay City 
and Flint are among the largest of the denomination in the state. 
Fifteen consecuti\'e years were spent in ministerial lahors without 
any protracted vacation or illness. He resigned his pastorate at 
Flint to accept the position of associate editor of the Michigan 
Christian Advocate, puhlished at Detroit, to which he was elected 




270 Class of 70, University of Michigan. 



in May, 1890. He has held that position ever since. He received 
tiie degree of A.M. from iVlbion College in 1890. 

He was married August 10, 1875, to Miss Emma Relman, of 
Detroit. They have but one child, a daughter. Flora. 

John William Johnson. 
Died at Ann Arbor, Mich., January 8, t870. 

He was horn in New York State, whence his parents re- 
moved to Delavan. Wis., when he was about ten years old. He 
prepared for college at Allen's Grove Academy and at Beloit 
College. He entered I'niversity of Michigan with the class of 
'70. and early won and ever maintained a high position in the 
esteem of his classmates. He was a meml)er of the Philozetian 
debating club, the .\l])ha Xu literary society and the Phi Delta 
Theta fraternity. He died at Ann Arbor when he had nearlv 
completed a foiu" \cars' course of study. Had he lived a few 
months longer he would have been graduated with the class of 
70. The class adopted the following memorial : 

"We are unexpectedly called to mourn the loss of one who 
by his character, his uniform courtesy, kindness and modest bear- 
ing, had endeared himself to us all. His many good qualities, 
his reserved and miassuming manner, his prompt performance 
of every duty, had gained for him the respect of all who knew 
him. A\'e who have luet him in the classroom shall especially 
feel his loss and shall cherish his memory more and more as the 
days go by. To his family, in their sad and sudden liereavement 
we offer our heartfelt sympathy. Theirs is the greater loss. 
Yet we may assure theiu that, though away from home, he was 
not without friends. May the Father of all comfort them in their 
affliction." 

Classmates Charles G. Wing and Leonard E. Stocking were 
chosen to accompany the body to the home of the parents of the 
deceased at Delavan. Wis. The remains were buried at that 
place. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 271 



Edward Porter King. 
Chicag^o, III. 

\\'as Ijorn at Ravenna, ( )hio, 
August 1 2th, 1847, ■'^'^'" of Eli P. 
King and Liicina Al. King-. Went 
through the Ravenna schools ; 
graduated from high school June. 
1866, and applied for admission to 
the University of Michigan in the 
fall of 1866, together with Wm. 
k. Day, of the same town. As 
they had been graduated from the 
high school only a few months 
before, with what they thought 
considerable credit and honor to 
themselves, they sincerely felt that 
the time taken up for their exam- 
inations for admissi(Mi to the freshman class would be a waste of 
time. Everything moved along just as they had anticipated, un- 
til in the regular routine they made the acquaintance of a gentle- 
man by the name of "Toughy", who at that particular time was 
endeavoring to learn how much the assembled prodigies from 
different sections knew about algebra. After several attempts 
with different problems on the part of "your orators", they were 
called to the desk, and duly informed in the opinion of the afore- 
said "Toughy" that they did not know anything about algebra, 
and it would take a full year of hard study to give them the stand- 
ing in mathematics necessary to admit them to the universitv. 
They secretly dennn-red to this opinion, but did not express it, 
for the reason that on the part of the professor there was a con- 
solidated directness of speech and manner together with that 
peculiar smile, which was beyond interpretation, and was so con- 
fusing to the two would-I)e freshmen that thev retired inc'lori- 




272 Class of 70, University of Michigan. 

ouslv. A conference uas held immediately after reachino- fresh 
air, and it was fully decided then and there that under no circum- 
stances would they submit to the disgrace of being" sent home. 
They also concluded they would see Dr. Haven, wdiich they did 
early the next morning, and there Wm. R. Day made one of the 
best pleas of his career. It was the turning point in his life, for 
he prevailed upon the president of the university to admit them, 
"conditioned" on the whole of algebra, to be removed by the first 
of the following January. He gave them a note to this efifect 
to Prof. Olney. who blandly remarked that they were attempt- 
ing something that would only end in failure, but nevertheless 
thev were admitted to the university "free and clear of all en- 
cumbrances" before the holiday vacation. Dr. Haven little knew 
he was making history, when in the kindness of his heart he made 
it possible for Wm. R. Day to enter the university with the class 
of '70 ; for, had he refused, in all probability President McKinley 
would have had another secretary of state during the most trying' 
time of his administration, and the Philippine question might have 
assumed an entirely different aspect. 

The subject of this sketch left the L'niversity of [Michigan in 
the spring of 1867, on account of failing health; taught school 
near Ravenna, Ohio, in the winter of "67, and moved to Lima, 
Ohio, in spring of 1868, engaging in the hardware business there. 
He was married to Clara A. Crouse, Lima, ( )hio, 1873, who only 
lived eighteen months after marriage. Was married to Harriet 
A. Townsend, 1876. This marriage resulted in one son, Robert, 
who is now nineteen years old. Removed tO' Pucyrus, ( )hio, in 
the spring of 1877; studied law for two years, and then removed 
to Chicago, Plinois. in 1881, forming a connection with J. H. 
Lesher & Co., 385 E. [\Iadison Street, where he has been since 
that time, and has held position as department manager for mau}^ 
vears. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 273 

Earle [Johnson] Knight, A.M. 

Albion, Mich. 

Was born September lo, 1851, at Akron, N. Y. His parents 
were Johnson W. and CorneHa P. Knight. His preparation for 
college was completed at the Ann Arbor high school. He entered 
the University of ^Michigan in 1866 with the class of '70, but 
remained only one month and then dro]:)ped out and remained 
awav for one year. He then entered the class of "71. with which 
he was graduated. He is married and has one son, Earle Kelly 
Knigbt, now in the civil engineering class of '03, U. of ]M. He 
is with the Gale Alannfacturing Co. at Albion, Mich., where he has 
been for many years. 

Henry Willis Lake. 

Died at Orange Park, Fla., April 30, 1885. 

He was born in Plainfield, Otsego Co., X. Y., Septembci 19th, 
1841. Went to Rock County, Wisconsin, with bis parents, Ste- 
wart and Alarinda E. Lake, in 1844. The early years of his life 
were spent on a farm and at district school. He attended for a 
time Allen's Grove Academy, Peloit College, and finally the Uni- 
versity of ^Michigan, where he was associated with the class of 
"70 from 1866 to 1868. Was a member of the Kappa Phi Lambda 
fraternity and the Literary Adelphi. Pie united with the Con- 
gregational church at Allen's Grove. Wis., and later was con- 
nected with the Congregational church at Clinton. In 1S68 he 
entered the firm of Wheeler & Lake in Jancsville, with whom 
he remained three years. He then traveled for the firm of EjcII, 
Conrad & Co., of Chicago, for twelve years. A popular and suc- 
cessful agent, he became a personal friend of the members of the 
firm. On September 10, 1872, he married ]\liss Libbie \'eeder, 
of Janesville, with whom he happily lived ten years. Sej)tember 
3d, 1884, lie married Airs. Alary Linder, of Independence, Iowa, 
who was living at the time of his death. There were no children. 
He died at Orange Park, Duval Co., Florida, on April 30, 1885, 
and was l)uried at Clinton, \\'isconsin, Alay 9th. 

19 



274 



Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



Joseph Lee Logan, LL.B. 

Cincinnati, O. 

He was born in i'arke County, 
Indiana, June 28th, 1843. His 
father was Samuel McCampl^ell 
Logan, and his mother's maiden 
name was Mary Helen McMur- 
tr\-. both of Virginia-Kentucky 
lineage and Scotch descent. 

The Logans, the McMurtrys 
and the lUichanans emigrated 
from Kentucky to Indiana in the 
early days of that state and form- 
ing, as it were, a colony, entered 
adjoining lands and l)uilt their 
homes in the forest. Amid the 
scenes and activities of such a 
strenuous life as is usually found in a new country the subject 
of this sketch was born and grew to manhood. His early life, up 
until the breaking out of the civil war. was spent on a farm. The 
means and opportunities for an education in those days were not 
so abundant nor of the character of the opportunities of the pres- 
ent day. At that time Indiana did not have her present educa- 
tional system in force, her school system being in its infancy. His 
circumstances in life were such that whatever of education he 
acquired nuist he by his own exertions. His education was ob- 
tained and paid for largely by his own earnings, working early 
and late, in the cold and in the heat, and employing all his spare 
time in study. Upon arriving at more mature years, he engaged 
in teaching during the winter and working upon the farm dur- 
ing the summer, thereby acquiring the means to prosecute his 
studies and advance his education. 

When the civil war beean and the first call was made for 




Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 275 



troops, he was quietly pursuing- his studies in an adjoining^ county 
at the W'aveland Collegiate Institute. He, with a number of 
his fellow-students volunteered for service in May, 1861, but the 
quota being already full, they were not mustered in. He, with 
a number of others, who were attending school at the institute 
again volunteered their services in October of the same year. 
This time his services were accepted and he was mustered into 
service on the seventeenth of October, 1861, at the age of eigh- 
teen years. His regiment was the 38th Indiana \^olunteer In- 
fantry and formed a part of what was later known as the Four- 
teenth Corps of the Army of the Cumberland. He was in the 
column that went down through Kentucky and Tennessee, at first 
imder the commantl of General Rousseau and others, later under 
the command of General D. C. Buell, who was followed in com- 
mand by (leneral Rosencranz. and lastly by General George H. 
Thomas, whose command was the "Rock of Chickamauga", on 
which the columns of Longstreet were broken and repulsed. 
During his first year he saw very severe service, but very little 
fighting. Just one year from the date of his enlistment he took 
part in that short, sharp conflict at Perryville, Kentucky, which, 
for the time it lasted, about six hours, was one of the severest 
battles of the war. This was followed by numerous battles and 
severe campaigning. He was engaged in the battles of Murfrees- 
boro, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge and 
other engagements about Chattanooga, and on the seventh day of 
Mav, 1864, started on the famous campaign to Atlanta. From 
the seventh of Mav until the first of September, his regiment, in 
various capacities, was under fire almost constantly day and night. 
In July and August they took part in the numerous battles around 
Atlanta, and on Se])tember first, in the liattle of Jonesboro. where, 
just at sunset, he received a severe and almost fatal wound, the 
onlv one of much conse(|uence, although he was wounded slightly 
at Chickamauga and at Peach Tree Creek, one of the battles near 
Atlanta. Before his wound fully healed his time of enlistment ex- 
pired and he was mustered out October 17th, 1864. Having given 
his time and services from a s])irit of ]5ure patriotism, he always 
and persistently refused promotion, preferring to serve the entire 
three years in the ranks ; and having spent three of the best years 



276 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

of his life in the service of his country, he felt that he was entitled 
to return to his school work. In the fall of 1864, he returned to 
the Waveland Collegiate Institute, where he resumed his inter- 
rupted studies and comjileted his ]M-eparation for the university. 

He entered the Cniversity of Michigan in September, 1866, 
with the class of '70, and remained with that class three years and 
a half. He was a member of the Ali)ha Xu literary society. He 
left Ann Arbor in the fall of i86<j, before com]:)leting his senior 
year, and began teaching, first as ]M-incipal of the Hagerstown 
Academy, at Hagerstown, Indiana. .Afterwards, for several years, 
he taught as princijjal of high schools until in 1875, he removed to 
Cincinnati, where he taught the classical and some other branches 
in the "Chickering Institute." .\t the same time he ])rosecuted 
his legal studies at the Cincinnati Law School, now a part of the 
University of Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in May, 
1876, with the degree of LL.I'). Since that time he has been 
practicing his ])rofession in L'incinnati, with average success, 
having occupied his present office for more than twenty years. 

He was married in 1869, to Martha A. Patton, who is still 
Hying. ( U' himself he sa}s, "While my life thus far has been 
one of even ter.or, it has also lieen one of considerable satisfac- 
tion. .\lthough 1 have not yet reached that period when all my 
ambitions have been realized, and while some ])eo])le would re- 
gard me as well along in years, the }-outliful spirit still remains, 
and I hope for many useful years yet to come." 

His present address is Wiggins' iilock. Cincimiati, ( )hio. 



Henry Lafayette Lorenz^ LL.B. 

Washington, D. C. 

He entered the l^niyersity of Michigan in 1866 with the class 
of "70, but remained with the class only two \ears. lie then 
entered the de]xu-tment of law in the university, and was gradu- 
ated therefrom in 1870. He is liying in Washington. D. C. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 277 

George Howard Lothrop, Ph.B. 
Died at Detroit, Mich., November 2J, 1896. 

George Howard Lothrop was the sccdiul son of (ieorge V^an 
Ness and Almira (Strong) Lothrop, and was horn at Detroit, 
A]M-il 1 8. 1850. He received his ]:)reparatory edncation in the 
])ul)hc schools of Detroit, and entered the University of Michi- 
gan in the faU of 1866. He joined the Sigma I'hi fraternity 
and the Alpha Xu literary society. He remained at the University 
of Michigan during his freshman and sophomore years, at the 
end of which time he entered the junior class of Cornell L^niver- 
sit\- and was g^raduated there in 1870. Upon his graduation from 
the university, he 1)egan the study of law in his father's office, and 
was admitted to the Itar in 1872. He remained in general prac- 
tice for several \ears, hut finally confined his practice entirely to 
patent law, in which he was engaged at the time of his death. 
At the heginning of rresident Cleveland's first administration, 
Mr. Lothrop was offered the position of Commissioner of Patents, 
hut declined it on account of heing i)eTsonally interested in sev- 
eral measures then pending hcfore the patent office. Upon the 
creation of the Puhlic Lighting Commission of Detroit, he was 
appointed one of the first commissioners and served out his term. 
With these exceptions Mr. Lothrop held no puhlic office in his 
lifetime. He was for several years lecturer on ])atent law in the 
law school of the University of Michigan, hut was finally ohliged 
to give up this position on account of the demands of his private 
])ractice. He had a national reputation as a patent lawyer. Mr. 
Lothro]) died at Detroit, Xovemher 21, 1896, of heart trouhle, 
hrought on largely ])y overwork. 

He was married in Xovemher, 1880, to h'annie, daughter of 
John and Jane ( Cook ) Owen, of Detroit. Three children were 
horn of his marriage, tw(j of whom, Margaret and h" ranees Owen, 
are still surviving. 

His hrother, Cyrus K. Lothrop, is practicing law in Detroit. 



278 



Class of "70, University of Michigan. 




William Cotter Maybury,^A.M., LL.B. 
Detroit,lMfch. 

Was born November 20, 1848. 
Mis father was Thomas Alaylnn-v, 
a well-known contractor, and his 
mother, Alarg-aret Cotter ]\Iav- 
bnr}-, came from g-ood Irish stock. 
William C. ]\Iaybnry attended the 
pn])lic schools in Detroit and en- 
tered the University of ]\Iichigan 
in 1866 with class of "70. He 
joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon 
fraternity and the Alpha Xn lit- 
erary society and was one of the 
speakers at the second Sophomore 
exhi])itii)n. He remained two 
years, then went to Yale College, 
returning to the University of ^Michigan to complete a course in 
the law department, from which he was graduated in 1871, re- 
ceiving degree of LL.B. He began the practice of law m De- 
troit, in 1871, and met with signal success from the start and 
was soon drawn into politics, being an enthusiastic Democrat. 
He was city attorney of Detroit from 1875 to 1880, when he was 
elected to congress to represent the ist District of ■Michigan, and 
served on the Judiciary Committee. He was re-elected in 1884 
and served on the Committee of W^ays and ]\Ieans. In 1881 and 
1882 he filled the chair of jurisprudence in the Alichigan College 
of Medicine. In 1887 he formed the firm of Conely. Maybury 
& Lucking, attorneys, and he was afterwards made managing di- 
rector of the Standard Life and Accident Insurance Company of 
Detroit. 

In 1897, Mr. Maybury was elected mayor of Detroit, a strong 
Republican city. He was re-elected in November, 1899, and 
again in November, 1901. He belongs to the Detroit and Fellow- 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 279 

craft clubs and is a 33d degree Mason, having- filled the offices 
of Commander of Detroit Commandery, K. T., for three years, 
and Commander-in-Chief of Michigan Consistory, A. A. S. R., 
for the Northern Jurisdiction, U. S. A., for six years. He also 
belongs to the Elks, Maccabees and Knights of Pythias. On 
July 25th, 1901, Mr. Maybury received the order of Chevalier 
of the Legion of Honor, which was presented to him by order of 
the French President, celebrating the founding of Detroit. It was 
largely through the persistent efforts of Mayor Maybury that 
this two hundredth anniversary of the founding of that city was 
so handsomely observed. Mr. Maybury has never married. 

John Lysle Maxwell, Ph.B., LL.B. 

Died at Biloxi, Miss., July 18, 1889. 

Air. ^Maxwell entered the University of Michigan from Xorris, 
111., with the class of '70. Was a member of the Literary Adel- 
phi. He continued two years with the class then left and en- 
tered Cornell L^niversity, from which he was graduated Ph.B. 
in 1870. He received the degree of LL.B. at St. Louis Law 
School in 1882. He died at P.iSoxi, Miss., July 18, 1889. 

Zuinglius Kernander McCormack, B.S., LL.B. 
Indianapolis, Ind. 

¥le was born June 25, 1843, ^^ Danville, Tnd. His parents 
were Hezekiah S. and Lucinda M. ( Beattie ) McCormack. His 
early educational training was in the various schools at Danville, 
including the Danville Academy. 

He enlisted as private in Co. H, 99th Ind. \'ol. Inf., on August 
15, 1862, for three }-ears' service in the civil war. Was in the 
armv of Mississippi and in the 15th corps, army of Tennessee. 
He was promoted to orderly sergeant and mustered out June 18, 
1865. 

He then attended the union school at Ann Arbor, and sub- 
sequently, in 1866, entered the I'niversity of Michigan with the 
class of '70. He remained until 1868, when he went to Union 
College, Schenectad}', N. Y., from which he was graduated in 



280 



Class of '70, Univkrsitv of Michigan. 



1870, receiving' the dei^rec of r).S. Became a member of 
Zeta l\<;i frnternily. In 1S71 lie assumed the (hities as 
principal of the ])iiblic schools of l\ock\-ille, liid. in 1S73 lie was 
g'radtiated from the law department of Indiana I niversily. Since 
then has been engaged in the practice of law at Indianapolis. Ind. 



Joseph John Mills, A.M., LL.D. 
Richmond, Ind, 

lie was born near Indianapo- 
lis, in 1S47. Mis ]xUernal ances- 
tors settled in rennsylvania upon 
their arrival in the I'niteil States 
ii-oni l"jigland. His father was 
\biu'r Mills, a farmer and prom- 
inent citizen of Marion (."ounty. 
Indiana. I lis mother was llan- 
nah l'"urnas. also of I'jiglish de- 
scent, whose father was a ]iioneer 
of Warren ("ouiitw ( )liio. I'oth 
his ])arents were Ouakers. to 
which religious connection he has 
been a life-long adherent. Me ob- 
tained his elemenlar\ education in 
a countr_\- school. At his entrance into the I'niversitv of Michi- 
gan he passed all required examinations for admission to the 
sophomore class, excepting Latin. .\t the close of the first semes- 
ter he left the universitx' for want of means to meet his college 
expenses and took charge of a country school near bis home. 
Later he spent a ])ortion of one vear at l-'.arlham I'oUege. Rich- 
mond. Ind. In iS6,8 he became ])rincipal of Sand (."reek Semin- 
ary, a ]n-i\-ate school in Bartholomew C'ounty. .\fter one year in 
that |)Osition he became princi])al of the ])ublic high school at 
Wabash, Indiana, and two years later was ])romoted to the super- 
intendenc}' of the city schools of that place, in which capacity he 




Dki'Artment of LriKUATUKiv, Science, and Arts. 281 



scrvc'fl two years. lie was then niarlc assistant superintendent 
of the ]nil)lic scliools of Indianapolis, which jxisition he held for 
eleven years. In iSfS4 he was elected to his present position as 
president of Earlhani Collcii-e. He is a nieniher of the Indiana 
State l!oard of Education, having^ heen a])pointed to that station 
hy the governor of the state, in 1897. lie holds the honorary 
de.t^ree (jf Master of .Arts from h'arlham C'olle<i;-e and that oi 
Doctor of Laws from llaverford Collet^e. In 1881 he served as 
president of the de])artmenl of higher education in the Inter- 
National ^Association, which met in conventi<jn at Tor(jnt</, Can- 
ada. He spent the threat ])art of the \'ear 18S9 in traveling ahroad. 
]n 1877 he mru'ried l'jni]\- W'an/.er, a native of Dutchess County, 
Xew N'ork. They have (jne daui^hter, Miss Certrude Cartland 
Mills, who was 5.^raduated at l^arlham C(jlleL;e in i8(j8: did j^^radu- 
ate work for one \ear in Kadcliffe Colleg'e, and is at present 
teacher of Cerman and Latin in h'airmount Academw Indiana. 

John Augustus Mitchell, C.E. 

Ludingfton, Mich. 

lie was horn in the town (jf Lima, Washtenaw Co., Mich., 
Octol)er 20, 1847. His father, Thomas Mitchell, and his mother, 
Lucy Evelin (Cravath) Mitchell, were of Scotch-Irish descent. 

He was ])rei)ared at the Ann Arbor hij.,di school and entered 
the University of Michigan in the fall of "66 with the class of 
1870. Was a member of the Literary Adel])hi. Remained with 
the class during its first year, but did not return to school again 
for two years, when he again entered the university with the class 
of '^2 in its second year. Me was graduaterl with this class with 
the degree of Civil Engineer. 

November 25th, 1876, Mr. Alitchell was married at Syracuse, 
N. Y., to Clara L. l)rown. They have two sons, John E., age 
2^, a student at Chicago Art Institute for several years, and 
Thomas L., age 21, engaged in luanufactm-ing business at Lud- 
ington. Air. Alitchell had ho])ed to send his bo\s tfj the Uni- 
versity of Michigan, but their minds ran in other directions. Mr. 
JMitchell has spent a laboritnis, active life and is still at it. 

During the years ^2 and '73 he was engaged as assistant en- 



282 



Class of 'yo, University of Michigan. 



gineer on a railroad in northern Alichi,i;an. He spent the year 
1874 in Kansas in general sm-veying and mapping. In the s])ring 
of 1875 he located at his present home at Ludington, Mich. Was- 
city engineer and general land snrveyor nntil the year '78. From 
'78 to the fall of 93 he was U. S. assistant engineer on river and 
harbor works on the east shore of Lake Michigan. From the fall 
of '93 to the present time he has been connected with the civil 
engineering and contracting firm of C. ]{. Mitchell & Co. Out- 
side of the contracting Inisiness he has spent several vears in 
charge of railroad construction and location. At the present 
time, besides his interest in the contracting business, he is in- 
terested in a manufacturing business i)f considerable importance 
at Ludington, Mich. 



Charles T. Moore. 
Fremont, O. 

\\'as born in the town of Uall- 
ville, in Sandusky Co., ( )hio, 
?\ larch 24th. 1846. His father's 
name was James ]\Ioore and his 
mother's. Harriet Patterson 
Moore. His early instruction 
was received at the district school, 
])ut when in his teens he attended 
the schools in b'remont, (). He 
attended ( )hio Wesle^an Univer- 
sity for one year in September, "66,. 
entered the University of Michi- 
gan with the class of "70. Re- 
mained with the class for two 
years. He joined the Literary 
Adel])hi. He is now and for the 
past sixteen years has been engaged in dairying and farming. At 
the present time has 37 cows producing about three barrels of 
milk per day, which is delivered to the citizens of Fremont. He 
is also feeding 40 head of three-vear-old steers for the Cleveland 



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meat market. Wr. Moore was married to Jennie M. Huber, of 
Pleasant Plains. 111., ( )ctober 24th, 1882. They have two chil- 
dren, Jnlia, 14 years old, and Huber, ao;ed 10. He says he would 
be pleased to see any of his old classmates. 

Eugene Charles Norcross. 
Tipton, Mich. 

He entered the L'niversity of Michigan from Tecumseh, 
Mich., with the class of "70, in the fall of i866. He remained 
but one year. Is engaged in farming near Tipton, Mich. 



William Lucas Oge. 
San Francisco, Cal. 

He entered the University of 
Michigan in '66. His father, 
judge Oge, of Afaryland, and 
later of ( )hio and Indiana, was 
of good old Scotch extract — the 
name gaelic ; his mother, a 
Knickerbocker, related to Presi- 
dent A 'an Ikiren. 

The subject of this sketch 
came to Ann Arbor to pursue 
certain stuflies in which he felt 
special interest, but with distinct 
statement that he chose no one 
of the fixed courses. He there- 
fore inadvertently helped to orig- 
inate the elective courses which have become so popular in lead- 
ing universities. Like several other boys of that period, he had 
deferred college days for sake of taking part in the great struggle 
for preservation of the nation- — spent two years in the army — 
for the Union of course — part of the time in the pay department. 




284 Class of 70/ University of Michigan. 

When recentl}- asked liv the tnUtor of this Ixiok for sketch of 
his life, he answered that, he "cHd not feel that he had ever heen 
sutificiently identified with the class of '70 to pose now as a mem- 
her of it," and also, that his life, in his judgment, had not been 
eventful enough to write about. 

Having' prescrilied a course for himself, he obviously sought 
no degree. His first year's work in the institution was in part 
with class of '70 and partly with those of "6»j and "68. During 
his second and last year he was mainly associated with the Senior 
class, that of '68, completing something more than the task he 
had set for himself, and receiving", unsolicited, a certificate from 
the president of the universit\- of nuich the same etifect as a 
diploma. 

Being "a man without a class." he, of cotirse, was never in 
line for class offices or honors, but he served one or two terms 
as secretary of the Alpha Xu. the leading college literary so- 
ciety, and as Pafcr Priiiiits of Oinicron Chapter of the Delta 
Kapl^a Epsiloii fraternity. 

Immediately after close of his work in the university he en- 
gaged in the wholesale hat antl fur trade at Cincimiati. Ohio, 
and rapidly built up a large and lucrative bi^siness. 

June. '6q. he married Miss Patterson, of \\'heeling, West 
Virginia, a graduate of Cooper Seminary, a brilliant antl cul- 
tured lady. 

In the autumn of '79, because of the failing health of his 
wife, he gave up his business for two years and traveled and 
sojourned in chosen climates in hope of renewed health for the 
invalid — first in early autumn, the northern lakes, hdorida during 
winter and spring, and the following year in California, prolong- 
ing, but not finally saving the doomed life. Left alone, he re- 
mained in Cincinnati till autumn of '73, when he returned to 
California, to which he had become dee])ly attached. He seemed 
at that time to be himself threatened with lung trouble, contracted 
his physician thought — ]\Irs. ( )ge having died of hereditary 
phthisis. For sake of open-air life he bought a ranch in a care- 



I)i:i'ART.ME.\T OK LITERATURE, SciENCK, AND ArTS. 285 



fully chosen climatic location — California has all climates — and 
for four years lived out of doors, in saddle or \vaj:(on much of 
the time, com])lete]y overcominj^- all tendency to the dire disease. 

Durini2^ these years in addition to supervision of his grazing 
and fruit ranch, he contrihuted to several cosmopolitan news- 
papers and mai^azines and i^ave some time to a sort of voluntary 
la\- nn'ssionary work, or^anizin^- Sundav Schools, several of 
which proved nuclei of successful churches. 

lUit while these spiritual flocks prospered under their clnu-chly 
she])her(ls, the or^^anizer's own tlocks, ten tliousand sheej:) — not 
spiritual, but woolly sheep of decidedly numdane dis])osition and 
limitations, found themselves not permitted "to lie down in green 
pastures," nor were they "led beside the still waters." The dire 
drought of 'yy had overtaken them; and their owner, wholly 
aside from fear of pecuniary loss, was distressed at thought of 
the dumb creatures lacking food. He paid out several thousand 
gold dollars for additional ranches, but after all. lost largely. 

In "7<S he married Afiss Chase, cousin of Chief Justice Chase 
and granddaughter of I'ishop Chase, removing at that time to 
San Francisco and becoming Pacific Coast manager of the secul- 
lar departments f)f the l)usiness of the Xew York Book Concern. 
In this position he remained till the close of '86, when he helped 
to organize and incorporate the Dewing Publishing Companv of 
New York and San Francisco — $250,000.00 capital. 

As director, secretarx' and treasurer of the Dewing Co. he 
had a large part in the ])reparation and publication of Picturesque 
California, a serial art l)ook, so notably meritorious that it won 
signal recognition throughout the United States and abroad. 
Mr. Oge was managing editor of the work and contributed largely 
to its pages, which, together with finest reproduction of original 
paintings by some fifty foremost American artists, set forth the 
matchless scenery of California and the picturesque phase of its 
wonderful resources and industries so successfully as to Ijring 
multiplied thousands of cultured people to its shores, and made 
it known the world over. 



286 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

Unfortunately the work was hardly launched when the great 
financial depression of "89-93 ^"^in'-'. :i'i<l the (juarter million dol- 
lars put into the art puhlishinj:;- enterprise was largely lost, Mr. 
Oge's share of the deficit amounting to a very comfortable for- 
tune. Since then he has served as manager of the Pacific School 
Furnishing LOmpany, working very hard for financial recupera- 
tion, hut as conscience forbade his using the ([uestional)le meth- 
ods 1)}' \vliich school trade lias come to l)e contrt)lled, and also 
kept him out of the big trust in his line, he has stood as one against 
a thousand and has of course had a hard time financially. To 
his close friends he expresses deep regret for loss of property 
acquired l\v years of diligent a])plication — regret especially on 
his family's account ; l)Ut evidently he enjovs the consciousness 
of having done his dutw of liaving been true to himself and to 
all with whom lie has had to do, and of having contributed some- 
thing to the intellectual and moral well-being of the communities 
in which he has ]i\'ed. 

lie I)egan his business career with a resolution not to permit 
himself to be so engrossed in effort for mere money-getting as 
to lose sight of the lietter ideals, and his whole life bears witness 
that he has kept ihc ])ledge. 1 lad he trained his faculties solely 
for money-making and hoarding and devoted himself, bodv and 
mind and heart, lo that one thing, he might doubtless have mil- 
lions to-day. The rigoroush' trained prize fighter can easily 
knock out the merel\- intellectual college president; nevertheless 
we do not all chcicise to be prize fighters! He has held himself 
in touch with the world of letters by methodical courses of read- 
ing, l)y aiuateur writing and as organizer and conductor of lec- 
ture courses, C'hantau(|ua Circles and other literary societies, 
several of which have now lived and tlourished for thirty years. 
Has also been active, in a modest way, as i)romoter of free 
libraries, and first and last has hel])ed to build and maintain a 
numl)er of churches and schools on the far western shore. 



Dlil'ARTMKNT OF LlTliRATURl-:, SciliNCK, AND ArTS. 287 



Tlioui^li recent years lia\'c l)r()Ut^lit him a full share of disap- 
pdintnu'iil and ])eri)le\it \- and even of misfortune, his friends find 
him still cheerful and j^enial and companionahle. enjoying- ap- 
l)arentl\- the same gladness of heart and honyancy of spirit as in 
the old college days anion^' the ma])le trees of dear Ann Arhor. 
In a recent letter to the editor of Class History, he sends "hcst 
throb for all the hoys, whose heads, like his, may now he touched 
with silver, hut whose hearts are i^olden with the i;arnered i^rain 
of useful lives." 1die memory of university life has perhaps 
been kept the i^reener in his heart by frecpient meetini;- with 
Berkeley and Stanford chai)ters of Delta l\a])i)a l^psilon in re- 
unions and l)an(|Uets and ri'centK' in those ot the I'acihc Coast 
Club of U. of iM. — lots of Michi-^anders as well as geese out 
there ! 

Afr. ( )g'c has several times declined ini])ortant government ap- 
pointments and also candidacv for elective offices, but we are 
told he will probably in the near futiu-e accept a national i)osition, 
which will take him abroad for some years. 

His present address is 25 Market Street, San lM"ancisco. 

Fred Perkins. 

Oswego, Kan. 

He was bom Sei)tember 16, 1S45, at liecket, Mass. i'repared 
for college at W'esslyen Academy, W'ilbraham, Mass. Ife en- 
tered the Cni\i'rsit\- of Michigan in Se])tember, }HG6, with the 
class of "70, but remained onl\' one year, lie engaged in farm- 
ing and banking in Kansas and became and is now ])resi<lent of 
Oswego State Bank at Oswego, Kansas. He was married in 
1869 to Alary E. Ma\-, of Woodstock, Conn. Their children are: 
Charles S. I'erkins, Kate S. Perkins and I'dizabeth M. Perkins. 



L'HS ( I ASS Ol' '70, I lNIVi:i<Sri N' 01 MlcllKiAN. 



Rev. Maxwell Phillips, B.D. 

Norman, Okla. 




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ami sislel s w el e llieinliei s." 

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in l.awieme -I ml \ in;; <iieek, l.aliii ami iiial iuiiial ics, llie I'list 
stmlelll III llle lllell III' l|ilelll i il | il i r.| lee I I \c I ' 1 11 \'cr.sil \ i il k.llisas. 

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^(mkIs ami linnlni;; liiiH.ilii. In lai I he liei.inie ;iii evpeil Ininlei'. 
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kaiisas ami Imhaii leiiiinn. Me w.is in leii h.iilles, in nine nl 
wliii ll llle I ninii ||iin|)s wcle \' ici niini 1 s. I le reeei\'ei| iliiiili}; llle 
llllee \(ais III Ills niililar\ sel\iee ihiee villi slml wiiIIIhIs. 

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classical c<)iirs('. lie spent alxuii lliicc scars in college with the 
class (il iS/O. Was class liisldiian in snplioniorc year. 
( )n acconnt i\\' severe Innt; trunhle, cansed l)\ the severe 
ciild weather (il the peninsnla, he was ci iMipeUecl to desist 
from pnrsninL; his colle^^i' cdnise Inither. Me was one of the 
spiakirs at the Jnin'or exiiihition; was a nieniher of the laterary 
Adelphi. lie retnnieil to Kansas and spent a scar ridin;^ over 
the Western plains as a tree a^cnt for I'hoenix Nursery, r>|o(»ni- 
inj^ton, III. TartialK' recovereil his Inaltli ami iindini;' himself 
twenty-nine yeais of aL;e, he went to Lane I heijlo^ieal Seminary 
at ( "incinn.'iti, < ). 

< )n eom)»lel Iiil; his conrse there he was oidaineil to the 
ministry and went as a missionai"\ to the kepnhlic of Mexico. 
I le spent a little over a \car in the ( it\' of Mexico, estahlishinj^' an 
evanj^clical i-onL;re^;ation theic, and also one \car in the neij^^h- 
horiiiiL; city of 'lOhica. Me then went north (500 miles by staj^e) 
to the city of Zacalecas, where shortly alterwards he was joined 
1)V l\ev. Mr. riiomson. I lieic tlnw remained three and a half 
years, preachiiiL; and editini; the Sj)anish wi-ekly papt'i^ called 
"l.a Antoreha I'.vani'tlica"' "The ICvan^clical Torch." They 
also succeeded in cstahlishinL; a sti'oUL; mission chmi h in Zacate- 
cas anil i|nite a number of smaller ones in towns near hv. .\fter 
this, at tile i((|uesl ol ^ome native piotest.ants living in the city 
of Oiieiitaro, he wein there and took steps to o])en evanj.4elical 
Wfjrship. lint on the morning' set for the openini; he was set 
upon 1)\' ;i mol) in the sti"e(ts, stirred np l)\ the \\. i . Ilishop 
living there who was a Spaniard. .\1|-. I'liillips received over 
twents wonnds, including three broken bones, ami iL'ui'ovvly 
escaped v\ il h his life. 

Mm ini;' his c()nvalesence he comjileted his t lanskat inn of 
"'llie .Shonlu'r^- ( otta hamily" for ])ubli( at ion. Me also trans- 
lati'd a trai't by l.avelaye ;md a < irei'k-l'jif^iish dictionarv into 
( jreek-Spanisli. Then at the retpiest of a Mexican j^eiitlenian, 

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290 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

living in Yucatan, he went tliere and spent a year and a half in 
evangelical work. Then he returned to Mexico City and took 
charge of the teaching of Cireek and history classes in the young 
Presbvterian college there for a time. Then he resigned the 
work in old Mexico to accept the work in New Mexico, where he 
preached and established evangelical schools for six years. After 
this he returned to Kansas and for four years farmed, making, 
as he says, "a distinguished failure of it." 

He again turned to preaching, in which lie spent eight years 
in Kansas, then came to Xorman, ( )klahoma. and has divided his 
time between teaching Spanish in the Territorial Cniversity there 
and preaching in neighboring towns. He says: "I have neither 
acquired wealth nor fame, l)ut am happier in my old age — I have 
passed the 60-mile post — than 1 was while young. I have a wife 
and six sons and two daughters and two grandchildren. In 
philsosophy I am a disciple of Hamilton, in religion I might be 
classed as a Mystic. Christ is my chief joy. I hope for His com- 
ing soon. He has been a good Master to me and I desire to com- 
mend Him to any one who has not accepted Him." 

Julius Joseph Pollens. 
Died at Newport, Vt., Nov. 29, 1870. 

He entered the University of Michigan from Richford. A't., 
in 1866, with the class of '70, but ill health compelled him to cease 
his studies. He was a mem1)er of the Alpha Xu literary society. 
He lived but two years after leaving the university and departed 
this life at Newport in the State of X'enuont, Noveml^er 2(), 1870. 



Dia'ARTMENT OF LlTERATUKi:, SciENCE, AND ArTS. 291 



Benjamin T. K. Preston, A.B. 
Waterman, Cal. 

r.cnjaiiiin 'I'. K. Preston en- 
tered the I'niversity of Aliehigan 
with the elass of '70, from the 
Ann Arbor hig'h school, and coni- 
])leted his freshman year. He re- 
mained awav one year and re- 
tui"ned as a meml)er of "71. with 
wliieh elass he was j^raduated in 
tile elassieal conrse. Was a mem- 
ber of the Ka})|)a ['hi Lambda fra- 
ternity. After teachin^i^ two years 
in Miehit^an, he went tO' Califor- 
nia, where he has sinee lived. 
After teaehint;- a year in Califor- 
nia he l)onijht a newspaper and 
began a jonrnalistie career which he followed, with an interrup- 
tion of five years in the federal service, for twenty years, at Stock- 
ton. San Jose, Fresno and San h'raneiseo. fie edited daily ])apers 
at the first three named places. I le is a Democrat and advocated 
free trade, civil service reform, sound numey and public owner- 
ship of public utilities. 

in 1872 he married. In 1874 he became a widower with a son 
six months old, whom he brought up and sent back to his alma 
mater fcjr two }-ears. The son is now in business in San Francisco. 
In 1897 he married in San Jose and soon after that event be- 
came secretary of the Preston School of Industry, a state re- 
formatory at lone. He is fifty-six years old and has always en- 
joyed robust health. His family now consists of his wife and 
daughter, four \ears old. His post office address is Waterman, 
Cal. 




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Colonel Hugh T. Reed. 

Chicago^ III. 

Ciz'il History. — The seventh 
son of Irvin Reed and Mary Miff- 
Hn Evens, his wife, was born 
August 17, 1850, at, and reared 
u])()u a fruit and vegetable farm 
near Richmond, Ind. At ten years 
of age he succeeded his lirother 
-Vlbert as salesman for their farm 
]ir()(lucts, and a year or two later, 
when their services were not re- 
(|uired at home, he and his 
])rother, Charley, bought and sold 
])oultry, butter, egg's and cheese 
ujjon their own account. In the 
winter months he attended the 
public school in Richmond and during the civil war he freciuently 
visited the United States volunteers in Camp Wayne, then located 
between the farm and the town, and his accjuaintance with the 
soldiers inspired him with the desire to be a soldier himself. In 
the fall of 1864 the family moved back to Richmond, where he 
resumed his studies at the puljlic school, except for one year, 
when from over-study he was confined to a dark room. After 
finishing at the public school (there was no high school grade 
there then) he attended Hadley's Academy in Richmond for two 
vears. His father owned a large town lot, where they kept horses 
and cows and raised their own vegetables, and as his father also 
owned a hardware store, to keep his boys off the street they were 
employed in the store when not at school or at work in their 
garden. In the sunnner of 1868 he received an appointment to 
the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, 
and to prepare him for the preliminary examination there the 
next June he was sent to the high school at Ann Arbor, Mich., 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 293 

wliere he was examined and admitted in Septeml)er. The Uni- 
versity of Michigan opened about a week later than the hii^h 
school, and as the examination for admission to the university 
was oral and public and in part like the preliminary examination 
at West Point he listened to the questions and answers for sev- 
eral days and then he himself was examined and admitted to the 
university, where he took a special scientific course and one study 
— German — was with the class of '70. He remained at Ann 
Arbor until April 30th and after a brief visit to his home he re- 
ported at West P'oint on June 8, 1869. He joined a Masonic 
lodge at Port Huron, Mich., in 1874. He collected in the then 
Dakota Territory, in i874-"76, the basis of the data for a paper 
entitled "A Calendar of the Dakota (i. e., the Sioux Indian) Na- 
tion." published Ijy Captain Garrick JNIallery, U. S. Army, in 
April, 1877, in lUilletin HI., No. i of the United States Geo- 
logical and Cicographical Survey, and republished by ^lallery as 
the "Dakota Winter Counts" in his paper on "Pictographs of 
the North American Indians" in Powell's Fourth Annual Re- 
port of the Pureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smith- 
sonian Institution, i882-'83. Colonel Reed is author of Signal 
Tactics, 1880, of Upton's Infantry Tactics Abridged and Re- 
vised, 1882, of United States Artillery Tactics Abridged and Re- 
vised, 1882, of Military Science and Tactics, 1883, of Broom 
Tactics, 1883, of Knights of the (dobe Tactics, 1896, of Cadet 
Life at West Point. 1896, of Frontier Garrison Life. 1903, of In- 
dian Campaigning. 1903. and of Army Titbits, 1903, and since 
1886 he has been the publisher of his own works. He has often 
served in various parts of the United States as judge of competi- 
tive drills by National Guardsmen, Masons. Patriarchs Militant, 
Sons of Veterans. Knights of Pythias. Kinghts of the Globe and 
independent military organizations. He was inspector general 
of Indiana, with rank of lieutenant colonel in i88i-'82. chief en- 
gineer of the Illinois National Ckiard in 1898. a candidate for ad- 
jutant genera] of Illinois in 1901, colonel of a provisional regi- 
ment of Illinois volunteer infantry and appointed as brigadier 



294- Class ok '70. UiM\i:Rsirv ov Mu iiu;an. 



p^eiicral of volunteers in the Spanish-. Xnu-rican war in iS()S, Imt 
the war eiuknl so soon afterwards that the eonnnission was w ith- 
heUl. lie married at Indianapolis. Ind.. Septemher 5, iSSj, Sallie 
K. l-\M\i^nson, the only daui^iuer ot' (."lenient A. I^er^^aisiui and 
Eleanora Irwin, his wife; no issue, lie was jirofessor oi military 
seienee and taeties at the X(U-th\vestern Militarx .\eadeniy. lliL;h- 
land Park, 111., in iS88-'So. lie was the arm\- meniher iA a trans- 
portation eommission a|>poinled in the iiuerest of the I'ield-lohnn- 
bian Museum. nhea_m>. 111., to \isit foreign eonntries, in iSi)4-"o'.\ 
He inwntetl a system of metallie sheh'ini;" (a moditicd furm of 
whieh is used in the ConiLjressional lilirarx building in \\ ashin^:;"- 
ton. D. r. ) ; a folding' eash hox : a dnplieate whist heard; a 
fountain pen; the oetavt) oame hoard for elu'ekers. chess, haek- 
jl^ammon. etc. ; and a box to hold these L;ame dements, the emer 
of the box bcins;' the board, folded, lie was president (or treas- 
urer) and prineiital stockhoUlcr of the (."rown Ten Comiiaiu . Chi- 
cai^"o. 111., fmni 1887-^)7, and since 181)4 he has had chari^e t.^\ his 
own real estate and renting' in l"hieaj;o. lie is a member oi the 
Hamilton and Tress (.dubs and an arm\- member i.i\ the L'nion 
League Club, all of (."hicai^d. He is also a member of the Associa- 
tion of Craduates of the Cnited ."-States Militarx' .\cadem\- and a 
member oi the ( h-der o\ Indian Wars o\ the Cnited States. l"or 
a number oi years he has taken part in militar\- i)arades in C hi- 
cago and has served in the parades as an aide, a marshal, in' the 
adjutant t^eneral. or as the secretary oi the milit;uw eommiltee 
orLjanizinq- the parades. Residence. Chicai^o. Illinois. 

.Inity History. — ("adet at the C. S. Militar\- Academy from 
July 1. i86(), to June 1^^. 1873. when he was graduated and pro- 
moted in the army to second lientenaiU. 1st Cnited Stales in- 
fantry. He served on frontier dut\ as the (|uartermaster at l-'ort 
Gratiot. jMichigan. from Sei)tember 7,0, 187^^. to July _' 1 . 1874, 
as the adjutant or c|uartermaster at l-'ort Sully. Dakota Territory 
(commanded seoiUs in Ma\ and |nne. 1875, near old l'"ort Pierre. 



DlCrAKI MICNl' OF ].n KkA IDKK, SCII'INCI':, AND Au'i s. 295 

l)al<(it;i Tcrrildi-y, to ])rcvc'nt white people from enteriiiL;' the 
r.laek Mills in the llieii Sionx liidian Keservatioii ; eoiuiiictcd an 
old solditr fioiii hoii Snll\, I )akota 'rerritor\', to the Soldiers' 
lloiiie, Washington. I). ( '., in Se])lenil)tr and ( )ctoher, 1H75; in 
charj^c of the military leleL',rapli line between i''orts Sully and 
Randall. I )ak()la Terrilor). in llie winter of i<^75-'7''')' ^'^ -^''ly 22, 
187O; eonmianded eom|)an\ at I'ort Kiee. I )akota Territory, to 
November 10. iS/O; eonnnanded c-ompan\- at l''()rt .Snllv, l)ak(jta 
'territory, to .April 24. 1S77; commanded eom|)anv on Sioux and 
Ncz I'erres Indian eanipaij^^ns (eonnnanded battalion part of the 
time while escoitiuL;" Scz i'erees Indian ])ris(jners from near the 
mouth of ( )'l''allon (reek in Montana TerritorN' to kort Leaven- 
worth. Kansas), to I )eeember i,:5, 1X77; at ]>ower lirule Ajj^ency, 
Oakota Territory (on leave from December 2i.st), to Auj^ust 30, 
1S7S. ( )n sii^nal duty at k'ort Whipple (now Vori Alver). \'ir- 
j^inia. to Januar\' jy, \^/*). < )n leave to March 1, i.S7<;, and on 
sick leave ( 1 st lieutenant, 1 st I'. S. Infantry, July 1, i'S79) to 
Se])tember 20, iX7(j. ( )n frontier duty at k'ort Randall, Dakota 
Territory (ins])ector of su[)plies issued t(j the Siejux Indians at 
Santee \,L;ency, Dakota Territory, and on sick leave from k'ebru- 
ary 17th), to July 31, iXHf). ( )n e-(jlK'L;e duty as ])rofessor of 
military science and tactics at the' Southern Illinois Normal I'ni- 
versity at (arbondale, Illinois, to July 1, iScS^. ( )n frontier duty 
at k'ort A])ache, Arizona Territory, ]),'U"t of tlu' time as adjutant 
or commanding company (commanded escort e-onve'\in^' ^ejvern- 
nu'nt funds from I lolbrook, Arizona 'l'e'rritor\ , to k'ort Apache, 
Arizona ke^rritory, and conuuande<l com])an\ on the siu'vev of 
the White Mountain hulian reservation in y\rizona 'kerritory, by 
k'irst Lie'Utenaut 'klu'Oflore A. Ilin^ham, L'. .S. en^ine'e-rs, in 
Se])tembe'r and ( )e-tobe'r), tej November 23, 1K83; eonnnanded 
com])any and ])art of tlu' time also the' (|u.arte'rmaster at Fort 
Lowell, Arizona 'kerritory (on sick leave from July 19, 1XH4J, to 
AugiLst 28, 1884; ejii lio^lit duty at San Dieg-o iJarracks, California 



21)C) 



Class oi' '^o. I 'n i\ i:ksi i ^ i)v Mk iiican. 



(on sick lc.i\f liMiii Scplniihri .'^, iSS|), (o .\|)ril j^. iSSi), llic 
il.ilc lie \\;is rclircd ti>r (|is;il>ilil \ iiuidciil lii llir sci \ ice. ( )ii lol 
K'f^T (liit\ as |>nil('ssi>r nl iiiilit,ir\ sciiurc .iihI ladies at llic I Imwc 
Srliodl. Lima, Indiana, linni AniMist i J. iSi)^, If llic incsciit 
lime. Ills rcsidciur is ( hifat;ii lllinnis. Address, (>i^ rnllnian 
I inildnij;. 

Samuel Vincent Romi^^ Ph.C , M.D. 

Rocklord, 111. 

Ileenteii'd the l'in\eiMl\ i>l \lielni;aii in lS()()\\illi the class 
of '^(1, linl icnianied with llie class (ud\ une \eai. Me llien en 
leied (lie sclidul (d pliainiaev liinn which he was i^radnaled ni 
iS/O, and |-ecei\i'(l Ins decree nl .\LI>. linni (he nieilical de|iail- 
nienl id Ihe nni\ei>il\ in iS/.'. Me piaclitid nieilieineal ,'^ni\ina, 
Miidi,, lioni 1S7.: In iS7s; al hmia, Mich , lioni 1X75 Id iSS;-; at 
l\(iL;eis I'aik, III , iiiini 1 SSv' In K )i 1 1 , wln'ii lu' rennwcd Id Knek- 
Idid, III , where he cdiilinius ihe i)raeliee (d his jiridessidii. 



Lloyd B. Sclby. 

Vc-iitura, Cal. 

Me enlered ihe I 'in\crsil \ ( il M ichii;an ni 1 S( >(> w il h ihe tdass 
of '71), leniainin^ onh one \eai. \llei leaxini-, cd||eL;e he weni 
Id Idwa, ihcn Id Missdini, ihen Id ( '.difdtnia. Me is said Id In' 
h\in;; ,il \ enlui.i, ( al., allhiinidi im recent inidi mal it m has heeii 
r<.ct.'i\ed Irnni Inin persunalK. 



I )i:i'.\l< IM I.N I (II' I .1 I IK A ri'Ki:. S»il' N( I',. AND /\l<IS. L".>7 




Arthur Raymond Simmons, A.B., M.D. 

Utica, N. Y. 

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CDlll sr. \V;is |ii III! i{i;il III I .1 III', 
(l;ilc Ini'.li ',(liii«il, l\. I., 1S71 'yi,. Was j^i .mIii.iIciI Inuii ( i.llcrc 
(il I 'll\ ',Hi;iiis ;ii|(| .S|irjj;cniis. ,\cw ^'ll^k < ll\, iS/;,. M.ilMiil 
I )(■('( llllxl .'. 1S75, Miss I'.llllll.l Killl',. Ill II.IIIIiihI, ( iiIIII, lull 11 

in .Mrlinsc, Mass., |iil\ .•<), iS|I^. Iliicc mhi',, iwii il.iiii'lilci s - 
,\rlliiir i'mici, luiiii Idi. is, i-^/'/i I'lankliii In 1 \ . Iiiun I )cc. 
II, iSyX; I' Ii/,iIm||i I\ hi;-, Imm II |iiI\ ^l, I SS.', . I ici I All!; II, I -'^S.^ ; 
l\a\ nil Hid jell line. Ik II II J III \ i(t, iXcS^; ImIiIIi I\ iiii;, In m n |iilv 15, 
iK«7. 

SiiiiiiKiiis slmlicfl nic<li(inc (liiiiin', lii'> last sen nf Ick liiiij' in 

Llllisdalc, K'. I., Willi I )l I. I'. ( (i.lUIII. III'. Ill I ,|)ll.ll ('\|irll 

ciicc was in r.rllcviK' I li r.|iil.il, .\cw' \'iirk, ;iiid .S|. I'.li/.ihrl li's 
lidspilal, I'tica, N. \. lie lic^aii iiiailiic in \rw ILiillmd, .\'. 
^'., ami ffir Uvu \cars \v;is |).iilmi nl l)i. \\\ K'. (iiiswnld, .m old 
|)rart it il iiicr. 

In N<i\'ciiili('i , iSX,;, he nios'cd lo I Ik.i, iiiiI\ iIih t iiiiirs di.s- 
taiil, and iil.iim-d, vvliilc liiiildiii;..; iip a m\\ (il\ pi .k I k c, imii li 
uf liisidd |)ia(li(ciii i\'cu' llaillnrd. .\ sii;ii in Iii'iiUkc wimlnw 
reads: "S|)(< iai ailciilinii lo ilu- eye, car, iioc and lliinal." lie 



298 



Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



is a member of the Oneida County Medical Society, of which he 
was president in 1883. lie is also a member of the Medical 
Society of the State of New York, and the American Academy of 
Medicine. Pie was a charter member of the Utica Medical 
Library Association. Has served on the staff of St. Elizabeth's 
Hospital; was surs^eon-in-charge of Faxton Hospital for two 
years and is now one of the staff of St. Luke's Hospital. He has 
written a number of medical papers. Dr. Simmons was elected 
an elder of the New Hartford Presbyterian Church in 1876. Since 
1884 he has Ijcen an elder in tlie Westminster Presbyterian 
Church, Utica. 

b'or recreation he takes huntinj;- and hshing- trips into the 
Adirondacks; plays i^'olf and bowls. Says that he will gladly- 
welcome any mend)er of "70 at 355 (lenesee St., Utica, N. Y. 



Edward Frank Sox. 
Albany, Oreg^on. 

He was born in Palmyra 
Township, Lee County, Illinois, 
(in lanuary 25th, 1846. His 
father's name was Herman Sox^ 
l)()rn in (iermany, November 14, 
1S14, and emigrated to the L'nitcd 
States when a \()ung man and 
settled in Pennsylvania. lie en- 
gagi-(I in railrtiad building. Dur- 
ing his three years' residence in 
that state he married Margaret 
( )\vens and moved soon after to 
St. Louis, Mo., and a year later 
to or near Sterling, III., where he 
located among the earliest settlers 
of the state, i le soon owned 240 acres of the prairie land in Rock 
River X'alley. There he raised a family of nine children — six 
girls and three I)oys — all of whom are now living, subject of this 




l)i':i'ARTMKX'i- or LrnoKATL'RE, SiiisNt, i;, AM) Akis. 209 



sketch being; the fourtl) cliild. His father (Heel March 24, 1888. 
His mother was Ixirn in Luzerne Conntw I'enn., Xoveinl)er 14, 
1814 — the same (hi\ , month and \ear ot' his father's hirth. 'Hiey 
were married I )ecemher 27, 18:^8. She is now hvins;- in Sterhng'^ 
in. Juhvard !•". Sox receive<l his earl\- echication in llie et)nntry 
schools of Ihinois. preparing- tiiere for colletje. lie entered 
Whcaton College, Illinois, in the fall of 1865 and spent two years 
of his college life there and then went to the University of Michi- 
gan in 1867. entering' the class of '70, hnt remained only one 
year. May 30. 1864, he enlisted in tlu- military service, becom- 
ing- a private in Co. I), 140th regiment Illinois vohmteer infantry 
and served until ( )ctober Jt;, 1864; his service being; mostly in 
Temiessee and Missonri. lie was a charter member in Mc- 
Pherson's J'ost, (1. .\. R., and ser\ed as its commander. 

Was niarried jannary 27, 1874, to Weltha Margaret Young-, 
of Albany, ( )reg-on. Thex' ha\-t.' two children, a son, C'arleton 
Edward Sox, who was born ( )ctober 29, 1874. was ^graduated 
from Albany Colleg;e in i8(ji. and from Stanford University, 
California, in the class of '(j4. I le studied law and is now a mem- 
ber of the law hrm of llewett & Sox. of .Mbany. ( )reg-on. Their 
daughter. I'jnma Rebecca Sox. was born in .St'atlle, Wash.. 
March 2«). 1883, and was graduated from \lb;my College in i<;()2. 

J^dward J'". So.x went to ( )reg"on from Illinois in 1871. taught 
in the public schools of Rortland, Oreg'on. and was ])rincii)al of 
the .\ll)an\ public scIuhiIs for two years. Also served for two 
years as professor of mathematics in Albany Colleg;e. In 1880 
he began the hardware business at Albany. After two years he 
moved t<i Seattle. Wash., and soon after helped organize the 
Seattle Hardware Co. and was its first treasurer. While in 
Seattle he served as alderman of the city and as president of the 
Y. M. C. .\. for two years, and was su])erintendein of the Ply- 
mouth Cong;reg;ational Sabbath school for three years. 

He retiu-ned to Albany in the fall of 1886 and eng;ai^ed in the 
hardware business there, soon after organizing- the Stewart & 
Sox ilardware Co., and is now president of the company and 
has been from its formation. He is in the very best of health. 
Is not a ])olitician. but has generally \(itt(l with the Rei)ul)lican 
party. 



300 



Class oI'" '70, Univiiksity ov Miciikian. 



James Scott Smith, M.D. 
Died at Hilo, Hawaii, April 7, 1879. 

lie was Ixjiii jamiarv 20, 
1X45, at Warren, ( ). I lis parents 
were ( liarles Sniilli and Ann 
I'Jiza ( Scott) Sniitli. While lie 
was a nieinher nf tin- In'i'li school 
at Warren, J'rof. Janus Marvin, 
llien snperintenflc'iit, remarked 
that in his studies he kejit in ad- 
vance of the hoys of his at(e, that 
lu' mastered his lessons with un- 
usual rapidity and threat accuracy. 
1 le enlisted durinjj;' the civil 
war ill the 171st Ive^t. Ohii) Vol. 
Inf. and remained with them un- 
til the re^-iment was mustered out 
of the service. Althou.L;li one of the sfjunj^est iiieiiihers oi the 
regiment, he ])roved himself equal to the best and bravest. Dur- 
inj.^ the battle of ('\nthiana, and after the enj^^aj^^cmeiit, he at- 
tended the wounded with a carefulness and tenderness (jf a 
brother, and with a coolness and skillfulness that but few older 
men possessed. SoUliers wluj were wounded in that battle still 
speak (jf his jL^enerosity and kindness (jn that (jccasicju with feel- 
ings of gratitude. 

He entered the I 'niversity of Michigan with the class of '70 
in the fall of 1866, but (july remained (jne year, lie went thence 
to J->ellevue Medical ( ollege, New ^'(Jrk City, and was graduated 
therefrtjm in i(S7i. Me then ])racticed niediciiie in ( )akland, Cal., 
for about a year and from there he went to llilo, Hawaii, where 
he Ijuilt u]) a successful medical ])ractice. lie died oi heart 
disease (ju A]jril 7, i!^79, and was buried at llilo cemetery, 




Dki'artmknt of Literature, Science, and Arts. 301 

wliitluT liis nniaiiis were ac-C( mipaniid 1)\ a larj^t' concourse oi 
people his friends. The \\vy. j. .Morion ofiiciatcd. 

Mr. Smith was never niarried. A sister, Miss CJlivc Smith, 
Hves at Warren, ( ). 



William Stagg. 
Died at Detroit, Mich., October 28, 1894. 

l!orn .May J7th, 1S4C), at I'alerson, .\'. j. W'lien he was one 
year old, his parents mo\ed to 'I'renton, Mich., on l)elroil Kiver, 
when- his hoxhood was s])enl. In iSfx) his parents renioveil to 
Ann Arbor. lie attended the 51I1 Ward scdiool, and later the 
Granmiar school, then under the superinttndeuc\- of I'rofessor 
Jackson, and snl)se(|ueutl\ the hii^h school, and llieic prepartd 
for college undt'r the instruction of I'rofessor (later judj^'e) ( '. 1!. 
(iraut and I'rofessor .M . I.. 1 )'( )m', now at the univt'rsitw In 
the fall of '(>2, he decided that it was his dut\- to enter the army, 
and consei|Uenlly enlisted .\o\'. i,|, '()]. "for threi' \i'ars or (lurinjr 
the war,"" in tlu' j<\ .Michii^an ('avalr\ an old re.i^inienl. lie 
served until August 15, '65, without a da\ "s sitd<uess and with- 
out a (lay's absence from his connnan<l, liaviui; been throuf^h 
t went) -two enL';aj4i nienls witlKjut a wound or au\ serious injury 
to himself. The war beinj.^' over, he returned to his studies and 
was s^raduated at Ann AiTor liii^h school in June, '66. 

lie entered the l'ni\'ersil\ of .\1 itdiii^an in the classical course 
with class of '70, but left ciille^e about the middk- of his sopho- 
more vear. Me was eu,na.L;'ed duriui^" '6(S, in vvritint;' U]) the 
.Skiiuier abstract of convc\ances of Wayne Co., Mich.; in '69, 
was b<jok-kee])er in thc' wholesale hardware house ol I'.uhl, I )uc-- 
liarme & (0. of l)etroit. Lea\int;- 1 )etroit in "70, he went to 
Nashville, Teim., and was eiuploytd as ])r(jot reader on the 
Nashville Kipublican I'.anner. The follow iul;- year he went to 



302 Class of '70. Univeksitv of Michigan. 



Atlanta. Ga., and became salesman with the wholesale hardware 
house of McNought, ( )rmond & Co. Was offered the position 
of night editor of one of the morning papers at Atlanta, but 
declined and went, via Savannah, to New York City, where he 
was engaged as proof reader on the New York World. Wishing 
to become thoroughly acquainted with the publishing business, 
he engaged himself to R. A. Beal, of Ann Arbor, as a printer at 
the case, where he thoroughly mastered his trade as a compositor. 
In April, ^t^, he was offered a clerkship in the city assessor's 
office in Detroit, which he accepted, and at the end of six months 
was made chief clerk of the department. This position he held 
imtil January i, '79, when he was appointed deputy treasurer of 
Wayne County. While holding his position in the city assessor's 
office, he was also secretary of the board of review of the city of 
Detroit. He held the position of deputy county treasurer until 
Januar}- i, "83, when he was appointed deputy state treasurer at 
Lansing, Mich., and held this position until jul\' i, '89, residing 
at the state capital. 

While holding the position of deputy county treasurer, he was 
appointed secretary of the board of Wayne Co. jury com- 
missioners, being the first secretary of the board, retaining the 
secretaryship until he moved to Lansing, ]Mich. He made a com- 
pilation, for the l)oard, of state and municipal laws relating to 
juries and jurymen, which is now in print. 

July I, '89. he was appointed assistant secretary and treasurer 
of the Wayne County Savings 15ank, of Detroit, the largest of its 
kind in the state. He held that position at the time of his death, 
October 28, 1894. 

He married Miss Jeanette Willmarth, of Detroit. Their first 
two boys, Bertie, born in February, '78, and Le Roy, born in 
January, '79, were taken sick with diphtheria, and both died the 
same day in July, '81, and lie buried in the same grave in Wood- 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 



303 



mere cemetery. Their other children are: WilHam R., aged 21, 
Avith Dickenson's Hat Co., Detroit; Nettie W.. aged 17, attend- 
ing liigh school, Detroit: Crosby \V., aged 13 and Farwood W., 
both attending school in Detroit. All of the children are living 
with an aunt on their mother's side. Their mother died in May 
1897. 

Mr. Stagg was a member of the Detroit Post, G. A. R., 
Corinthian Lodge. F. & A. M.. the A. O. U. W., and the Psi 
Upsilon fraternity. 



Mortimer Hiram Stanford, LL.B. 

Duluth, Minn. 

Was born in 1848, at Ogden, 
near Brockport, Monroe County, 
New York. His ancestors were 
English, but have lived in this 
country since colonial times. He 
moved with his parents to Fenton- 
ville, Michigan, in 1856. In 1864 
he enlisted in General Custer's 
band and was rejected by the 
mustering officer by reason of his 
}outh; he soon after enlisted 
again and, avoiding the age issue, 
was mustered into the military 
service as a member of the 21st 
Brigade band, 4th Division. Army 
of the Cumberland in the summer of 1864. The band participated 
in the operations of the Army of the Cumberland, and was with 
General Stoneman's command in eastern Tennessee and western 
North Carolina in the spring of 1865. 

In the fall of 1866 he entered the literary department of the 




304 Class of '70, Unukksitv of Michigan. 

Uni\-crsit\- of Micliii^an with the class of '70. remaininp^ with the 
class only twn vcars. I he next year he took up the stiul\ oi law 
ill connection with other eniplox nient at h'entonville, which he 
jnirsuecl until he entered the law class in the university in the fall 
of 18O9. and was oraduated in the sprinj; of 1871. Shortly after 
ijraduation he was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of 
the state, and conmienced the jn-actice of law at h'entonville. 
There was no lack of business at that place, but it was some dis- 
tance from the county seat and he soon removed to Midland, 
Alichig'an. lie had been there but a short time liefore he had 
accpiired the business of the lar<;e lumberiiii;' interests that were 
operatetl from that point. \\ ilh the exception of two years when 
he lived in Sas;inaw. Michis^an, he remained at Micllaiul until 
the spring of 1892. At that time as his jn-incipal clients had 
practically closed their operations in Midland and had transferred 
their interests very largely to Minnesota, he then reuio\ed to 
Duluth. there taking up the business o[ his former clients. His 
business now involves not only matters incident to lumbering 
oj'jerations, but also mining ami general corjioration matters. 
Since he conmienced practice he has been lortunate in not having 
to wait for business: and it has been among the best class in the 
section in which he has lived. Since he located in Duluth he has 
had charge, and conducted to a successful termination, suits in- 
volving the title to some oi the most \aluable mining property 
on the ]\lesaba Range; and also actions in\'ol\ing title to large 
tracts of timber land, lie is now engaged in se\eral suits which 
affect the title to a large tract of valuable land, and which in- 
volves the power of the land department of the I'nited States; 
one is on the ])resent term calendar of the Supreme C"onrt of the 
United States, the others will undoubtedly reach that court be- 
fore the litigation is terminated. 

Mr. Stanford has two children, Marion Morris Stanford, age 
eleven years, and Mortimer 11. Stanford, Jr., age eight years, by 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 305 



his wife I'"niil\- Linslcy. who (hed in 1895. ^^^^ j^rcscnt wife was 
Esther Hywater, of HnfTalo, New York. His father, Hira A. 
Stanforrl, died in 1899; '^'^ mother, I'hyann (Riclimond) Stan- 
ford, still resides at A'lidland, Miehis-an. 



Rev. Charles Maloncy Taylor. 

Jamestown, N. Dak. 

Was liorn near Chnton, Ind., 
Sejjteniher 16, 1844. His parents 
were Alfred and Matilda (Stur- 
s^es ) 'J'aylor. He enlisted in the 
rivil war in Co. D, 85th Ind. Vol. 
inf.. in 1862, and served until the 
close of the war. He entered the 
University of Michig-an in Sep- 
tember. 1866. with the class of 
'70, hut remained only two years. 
He joined the Phi Delta Theta 
fraternity. After leaving the uni- 
versity he attended the State 
.N'ormal School of Indiana and 
tau<^ht school for nineteen years; 
fom- years as ])rincii)al (jf the Western Union Seminary, Clinton, 
Ind.: three years as principal of the public schools of George- 
t(jwn. 111.: three years in Danville and eight in Paxton, 111. In 
1887 he was ordained to the gospel ministry in the Presbyterian 
church. He served nine years as pastor of the church at Prince- 
ville. 111., and four at Warsaw, 111., and is now pastor at James- 
town, X. Dak. 

Mr. Taylor was married to Miss Emma Bilsland, April 7, 
1869. The}' have a son. now a ph\sician in Allegan, ]\lich., and a 
daughter. Miss IJeatrice, at home. 
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306 Class of '70. University of Michigan. 

Judson Newell Thompson. 
Died at Salem, Mich., June 6, 1894. 

He entered the University of Michigan, from Ann Arbor, in 
1866. with the class of '70 and remained two years. His sub- 
sequent career has not been ascertained. 



Samuel Wolcott Walker, C.E. 
Detroit, Mich. 

]\lr. Walker entered the University of ^Michigan with the class 
of '70 and remained with the class two years. He was one of the 
speakers at the second Sophomore exhibition. In 1868 he joined 
the class of "71, with which he was graduated as civil engineer. 
He at once assumed the position of assistant civil engineer of the 
Hillsdale & Southwestern R. R.. now a branch of the Lake Shore 
R. R.. and had charge of heavy construction work on that line. 
He resigned to engage in luml~)ering l)usiness at W ayne, and later 
at Stockbridge and Pinkney, ^lich. 

He married Miss Sweeney, daughter of Dr. Sweeney of Dear- 
born, ]\Iich., and has a son 21 years old. They are now living at 
380 Bagg street, Detroit. 



Greenleaf Cash Wattles, A.M. 
New York City. 

Was born at Lapeer, ^lich., October 2, 1847. His parents 
were John AI. Wattles and Phila A. \\'attles. He prepared for 
college at Lapeer and at Detroit, :^lich. He entered the Uni- 
versity of Michigan in the fall of 1866 and remained with the 



Department oe Literature, Science, and Arts. 307 

class of "70 two years. He joined the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, 
was one of the editors of the Oracle. In 1868 he went to Yale 
College, from which he was graduated in 1870. Is married and 
has one son. Fred G. Wattles, now about 27 years old. Resides 
in New York Citv. 



Walter Wallace Williams, M.D. 

Bay City, Mich. 

He entered the University of Michigan in 1886 with the class 
of '70 and remained one year. While there he joined the Psi 
Upsilon fraternity. In 1872 he was married to Mary A. Whitaker. 
He was a traveling salesman and a farmer for several years. He 
subsequently was graduated from the Michigan College of Aledi- 
cine, at Detroit. He was twice elected to the Michigan Legis- 
lature, in 1887 and 1889 and was elected speaker pro tem. in i! 
He is now located at Pay City in the practice of his profession. 



;U)S C"i.Ass oi'- '70. Uni\i:ksi IV oi' Mu iikian. 



Soldier's Roll of Honor. 

In U. S. Service during Civil War, lSbI-5. 

Artliiii- ( hirk \il;mi,s, J.|lli X . ^ . (, a\;ilr\ . 

(u'nrm' \\ . MK'ii, in Ihwit Mississippi n;i\;il S(|n;ulnin. 

Julius A. r.hukliui n. Mirli. (. a\;ili\. 

Jauirs Mr\\i.\ IWui, pli Mirli. \\A. lul. 

riuMuas llarprr I'.usli, (o. K . i,V)l'i H'- \ «''• Inf. 

1 liduias (,'lialuu'rs I luislx, i~isl (Muo Xol. lul. 

Mollis I'.isliop I'oslor, (\k I >. ddlli 111. \\A. lul. 

\'.\)vu l.caiuKr Mill, J7llt .\. N. lul.. laU'ioSlh X. ^■. Jul". 

('wiu I'". 1 .r l'\'\'ii', \nu\ (il llir roloinar, 

Josipli \ A\- l.i)L;au, ^v"^'!' Ii"l- \ "I- l"l- 

l.irul. John .Si-dll .Malliuau, i^lli .Mirli. \ dl. luf. 

/.uini;luis kiinauiln \ Ir*. nruiai'k, ('n. Il,t)i)lli hul. \o\. hit'. 

.MfuHl XohU'. _'.|lli Mirh. \ ol. lul. 

William I .ucas ( \l;(.', in Tax I )ipartunut. 

Marius (, ouisliH-k I Vmiiuu^Iou, ( o. I ), iilli Mirli. \ol. lul'. 

Capl. .\la\\\rll riiillips. Co. C, _^il link \\A. lul. 

William I U-iuv Scliork. (,'0. I ), i.iulli 111. \ ok lul., latrr C'o. 
I). ,^pli 111. \\A. lul. 

I'Mwanl k'lauk So\,(.'o. J), i.nnli 111. \ Ok lul'. 

Jauu's .Sroll ."siuilli, 171SI ( Miio \ ok lul'. 

W illiam StaL;,!;. Jil Mirli. ra\alr\. 

MorliuuT lliram ."^laul'oul, Jisl I'.ri^adc I'aml, .|tli Pivisiou, 
Anu\ ol C 'muhriiauik 

l.iu-ius I'.unir .^wil'l. jSlli X. \'. \ ol, lul'., kiU'r 1st X. \'. 
I.i,L;lit AililK-ry. 

(Iiark's .\laloiu-\ Taxlor. (.'0. M. S5tli liuk \o\. hit". 

AU'xaiuKr I'liomson, I Uaisliaw 's Illinois I'attcrw 

c haiK's .MauKv Wells, r.attciv l\ isl Ta. I -is^ht .\rtillorv. 

(. liaiK's ( iordou W iu^;. iu llu' iia\ \ . 
In si'i"\ iri' as I'ix ilians : 

Osi'ar I. (amplu'll, as Tax uiasti'i's (.-UTk. 

I'liaiU's S. (.'arkr. xxitli .pli Wis. \o\. Int.. ami later in 
.Auditor's oftuT r. S. Militaiy U. Uds. 
SiiUH' tlu' (. ix il War. 

(."ok I hmli r. ivi'i-d of tlir ruiU'd ."^tatos .Anuv. 



l)i;r.\i<i MiONT ()!• Liti;kai iiRi;, S(II';n(i:, AND Auis. .'{()'.) 



In Memoriam. 

I''l()m llic ^'l)i(■(•l(■^^ li|is ol llicsc (nii dcid 
riicic collies MO word; lull in llic iiif^lit ol dciilli 
llo|>i- sffs a star, and listciiiiif^ love can luai 
riic rustle ol a wiii^. ' ' 

jiilin \\ illi;iin JdliiiMiii, 
J;iiiii;iry ■'\ \>>yi). 

Julius jdst'pli I '( )ll('iis, 
N()V('iiiI)C'r _"), 1H70. 



V 

I l.'iiiiliiic Jams ( laiiliuf, 
( )c-t()l)ci- j;, 1S71. 

.\l)nc'r I .cw'is Andrews, 
May 1, 1X7^5. 

Jar.,1) I'.cllrr, jr.. 
I )ccciiil)cr 10, 1S75. 

|lllill^ Ahiiaiii I'.lackliuni, 
I'rhniary J^, I.S47. April j;-,, 1S76. 

I linmas W MJL', 
DcTcinheT 25, 1S47. ■ \,„-iI ;;, 1S77. 

< ic'i irs.H/ I lii( K ip ( aiiipan, 
July 29. 1S47. I'cl)inaiy 5, 1X79. 

James Sciiit Siin'lli, 
Januan jo, 1S45. April 7, i,S7(;. 

Sliciiuan Sauldrd .\vvr\\ 
^^S^- ' July ( I, 1X79. 

JauiLS Alfred I layward, 

SepleUlher !_', |S4(;. ' Au.^Ust 12, I XSo. 

( liarli's llalU'Ui^er, 
Sepleinher 2S, 1X4^). Mareli l.^, iXXi. 

Judsou Slatlnj-d lliid, 
( )el<il)er i). 1X46. May i<;. 1XX2. 

lleurv Willis Lake, 
Stpleinlier Kj, iX j 1. April i,n, 1X85. 

James l)e\\c'\ lluri', 
Au-ust 31. 1X4^^. " ' May 4, 1XX6. 

Willis ( layliird ( iraliam, 
I )eeeml)er I), I XX6. 



310 Class of yo. University of Michigan. 



Thonias Harper lUish. 
April 3. 184;. March _n). 1887. 

I His I'lrastus Havoii, 
July _%-. 1840. l'\'bruarv 3. 1888. 

Jolui Lisle Maxwell. 
Inly 18. i88(.). 

Peter X'oorheis, 
September 11. 1843. Decetuber 17. i8go. 

Albert W'illiaiu W'eisbrod. 
l\nober 4. 1851- April 18. 180J. 

Frank Clark Hill. 
(.\-tober 17. i8gj. 

\'iiicent Siuitb Lovell. 
Mav 2. 1845. Pcoeinber 7. 1802. 

judsiui Xewell IMionipson. 
Jamuiry i>. 1804. 

William Stag'j;", 
May J7. 1840. October _'8. 1804. 

\ arnum Ikirstmv iVicbraii. 
Pecember 5. 1844. May 0, i8uO. 

Georije Howard Lothrop. 
Aj-iril 18. 1850. November _'i. i8«.)0. 

William Thomas luuersoii. 
July 23. 1848. Auo-ust _K). 1807. 

l-Vank Howard Iknve. 
May 10, 1850. Pecember 2(K 1897. 

Patrick Henry r>umpus. 
Jaimary Ji. 1841. I'ebruary 18. i8u8. 

James L'ampbell Holliday. 
Xovember 5, 1845. " October 1. 1808. 

Warren Chaffee A\illits. 
July t). 1847. (.October 30. igoi. 

John Lovelaiul LuUey, 
October 11. 1847. " b\"bruary _|. 100 J. 

"When musing on companions gone 
We doubly feel ourselves alone." 



Echoes from College Days. 



The second part of this Ijook is devoted to a record of events 
which give an outline of tlie history of the class dtiring the four 
years of its university life — from September 17, 1866, to June 29, 
1870. I'or lack of space it can be only a summary of the experi- 
ences and achievements of the class during that time. Many 
items of interest must be omitted; but what is here recorded will 
awaken recollections of a multitude of other interesting incidents. 
Memory thus stimulated will furnish many an hour of pleasant 
reflection to the collegian of that time. 

Complete Class Roster. 

The following entered the university in September, 1866. The 
residence of each at that time is given. Those whose names are 
printed in italics were graduated in 1870. The courses taken were 
the classical, scientific. Latin, and select studies. 

Name. Course. Residence. 

Arthur Clark /hkuns, CI Washington, D. C. 

George Washington Allyn, CI Xankin, ]\lich. 

Albion Alexander Andrews, Sc Perry, X. Y. 

Abner Lewis Andrews, CI Otisfield, Me. 

Albert Everton Baldwin, Sc Abingdon. 111. 

John Albert BaUhvin, CI Detroit, Mich. 

Charles Ballcnger. CI IVillianisbitrg, Ind. 

Henry Hoyt Barlon', CI Hastings, Mich. 

George William Bates, CI Detroit, Mich. 

Jacob Beller, Jr., CI Detroit, Mich. 

Wooster Woodruff Benian, CI Ann Arbor, Mich. 

Henry Graves Bennett, CI Ann Arbor, Mich. 

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312 Class ok 'yo. 1'xim:ksitv of Mkiiu.an. 



Jiicison Slatfoni Bird. Sc Inn .Irbor. Mich. 

Jiiiius Abiraiii Blackburn. CI Inn Arbor. Mu'li. 

James Harrison Blanchard. CI //'// Arbor. Midi. 

Darius Fremont l>oughton. So West Xovi, ^lich. 

Charles Andrew Bowman. CI Peoria. 111. 

Patrick Henry Bnnil^ns. CI lackson. Mich. 

Cliarlcs Francis BnrtO)i. CI Hastings. }HcJi. 

Thomas Harper Bush. CI Gcucsco, 111. 

George Throop Campau. CI Detroit. }Hch. 

Charles Simeo>i Carter. Sc Faincater. II' is. 

Thomas Chalmers Christy. CI Ki)isman. 0. 

\'anium l^arstow Coohran. So Argentine. Mioh. 

Eugene Frank Cooley. CI -inn Arbor. Mtch. 

John Loz-elaml Culley. Sc Ishtabula. O. 

Edward Everett Darrow. CI Kinsman. O. 

Harlo:,' Palmer Davock. Sc Buttalo. X. Y. 

George Ellis Dawson. CI Springtield. III. 

JJ'illiam Rufus Lhiy. Sc Ravenna. 0. 

Charles Kecne Dodge. CI lackson. Mich. 

John Eoster Eastwood. CI Vnn Arbor. Mioh. 

Charles Stouton Edn'ards. Jr.. CI Lacon. III. 

Erank Enierick. So ^■psilanti. Mioh. 

Luther Elliott Ferguson. Sc H7;/7i- Pigeon. }Hch. 

Achilles Finley. CI High Point. Mo. 

George Jay French. CI Homer. Mich. 

Hamline Janes Gardner. CI Ann Arbor. Mioh. 

Willis Gaylord Graham. So Jonesville. Mioh. 

Erank Norton Greeley. Sel Oswego. X. Y. 

Frank Gunnison. So Erie. 1 a. 

Otis Erastus Haroi. CI '"" ^Irbor. }Hch. 

James Alfred Hayicard. Sc Dublin. X. II. 

James Dudley Hawks. So lUiftalo. X. V. 

James Campbell 1 loUiday, So North SpringticUl. Ta. 



IJki'AK'i MKNT (>\' Lni;KAri:Ki:, Scii'iXCK, AM) Akis. '513 



Josfpli ('(jliiiiihns I lostdlcr, Sc Decatur, 111. 

Sanuicl kcifl^ars I \uv\ori\, Sc Ottawa, 111. 

James l^lvvanl Jackliii, (1 Uctrfnt, Midi. 

Jr.Ini \\'illi;mi j-.liiisnii. ( 1 Urlavaii, Wis. 

l-niiicis irnyliiiid Join's, CI //;// Arbur, Mich. 

I'jluard I'ortrr KinJ^^ Sc Ravenna, (J. 

Charles Jacoh Kliiliicr. Sc A^orA- lUrrcn, Ky. 

luirlc J<.linsoi) Kni-Iit, ( 1 Detroit, Mich. 

Henry Willis I>ake. Sc Clinton junction, Wis. 

Joseph Lee Lo,<,^an, CI Kcjckville, Ind. 

J lenry Lafayette Lf;re/., Sc (iennantovvn, O. 

GeorL(e I hnvard 1 .niluo],, (1 Detroit, Mich. 

Vincent Sin Hit l.trrcll, CI Inn Arbor, Mich. 

Milo /ill/nil Mitrsh, Sc Milford, Mich. 

ll'illiiun /■rccinan Mallhcws, CI Yp.silanti, Mich. 

William Cotter Maylniry, CI Detroit, Mich. 

Jr^hn Lisle Maxwell, Sc .\orris. 111. 

Zuin.ulius'Kcrnander .McCorniack, Sc Danville, ind. 

Michael Alexander Mcycndorff, Sc Nc-a' York City. 

Ccnri^c lVashin:^lon Mickic, Sc Stcrluii^, III. 

J(jhn Au.L^uslus .Mitclii'll, Sc Aun .Xrlior, Mich. 

Charles T. Moore, Sc l-'renifrnt, O. 

Bernard Moses, I. Unionville, Cunn. 

Eu.L(ene Charles .\(jrcross, CI Tecumseh, Mich. 

William Lucas ( ).<,a-, Sel Kni<,ditstown, Ind. 

Clark Olds, Sc I'-^ic, Pa. 

Darins Conisloek f'ennino;lon, Sc Macon, Mich. 

Fred I'erkins, CI liecket Center, Mass. 

Aaron I'crry, Sc Oakland, Mich. 

Maxwell .Addison l'hilli])s, CI Salina. Kan. 

Julius Jose],h I 'ollens. CI Ricliford, \'t. 

Lenjamin Tuslin Killam I'reston, CI Crass Lake, Mich. 

Henry Clay kipley, Sc Saginazv City, Mich. 



314 Class of '70, University of IMiciik.ax. 



Samuel \'incent Romiq-, CI Superior, ]\Iich. 

Lloyd 15. Selbv. Sc Calamine. Wis. 

J}' ill ia III riciiry Scliock, Sc Prairici-illc. 111. 

Arthur Raymond Simmons, CI New 1 laven, X. Y. 

James Scott Smitli, Sc Warren, O. 

William Stagg^, CI \nn Arbor. Mich. 

^lortinier lliram Stanford, Sc l'\>nton\ille, Mich. 

]Valtcr Barlow Stcrciis, CI Peoria. 111. 

Leonard Eiiiiah Stocking, L lltcn's Cro:\\ Wis. 

Lucius Burric Sivift, L Yates, X . Y . 

Charles ]\ialoney Taylor. Sel Clinton. Ind. 

Rufus Hill Thayer, CI Xorthrille, Mich. 

Judson Newell Thompson. CI \nn .Arbor, Mich. 

Alc.vander Tlwiiison, Sc Morris III. 

.fames Fisher Ticeedy. CI Milwaukee, IT is. 

Peter J'oorheis, CI White Lake, .Mich. 

Samuel Wolcott Walker. Sc Wayne, Mich. 

JFilliaiii James lJ\iters, Sc Bedford, Mass. 

Greenleaf Cash Wattles, CI Lapeer, Mich. 

Oliver Hart JCatfles, Sc La[^eer. .\lieli. 

Albert William Weishrod, CI Oshkosh, Wis. 

Charles Rudolf^hus JJ'hitinaii, CI C/r/Vd'i^c, ///. 

Walter \\allace Williams, CI .Ann .\rbor. Alich. 

Jl'arreii ChatTee JJlllifs. Sc Idriaii. .Mich. 

Charles Cordon JCing, Sc Frauklinville, .X. ]'. 

The folUnving- joined the class in September, 1867: 

Sherman Sanford Avery, Sc b'orestville. N. Y. 

Delos .Allen Chappell. Sc Cooper, O. 

Williaiii Thoinas Emerson, Sc Racine, JVis. 

Robert Xezi'ton Fearon, CI Oneida, .V. Y. 

Edwin Fleming, CI West Lebanon. Lid. 

Eben Leander Hill, CI St. Clair. Mich. 



DjirAUTMENT OF LITERATURE, SciENCE, AND AkTS. 315 

Frank Clark Hill, CI Waiipun, Wis. 

Frank Hozvard JIoxvc, CI Green Bay, Wis. 

U'ashiii^^toii llydc. L J'ariiiiii<^ton, O. 

John Seott Mall man, Sc Chicago, III. 

Joseph John Mills, Sc Valley Mills, Ind. 

Alfred Noble, Sc Nankin, Mich. 

Edward Frank Sox, Sc Sterlinj^, 111. 

Charles Mauley l^ells, Sc Gibson, Pa. 

The following- did not retnrn to the class in tlie fall of 1(867: 

Pienry G. Bennett John M. Mitchell 

\'. 15. Cochran Eiif2:cne C. .\orcross 

John V. Eastwood Fred Perkins 

Willis G. Graham S. Y. Roniig- 

h'rank Gunnison Lloyd V>. Selhy 

Edward P. King- M. H. Stanford 
Earle J. Knight 

The following- entered the class in vSeptemher, i(S68: 

Marcus Baker, CI Kalania.-joo, Mich. 

I' rank Bradley, CI Chatham, III. 

Clarence Morion Boss, Sc ]'psilaiili, Mich. 

James Dewey Burr, Sc I'err)-, Mich. 

Oscar James Campbell, CI Ravenna, O. 

Russell llrrclt, CI Alliance O. 

Morris Bishop Foster, Sc Keeler, Mich. 

Charles Phelps Gilbert, Sc Oiiincy, Fla. 

John Collins Hoivland, Sc I' lint, Mich. 

Oicen Fdgar I^c Fcvre, L llppecanoe, 0. 

IVilliam Lorenco Pcnficld, CI Hudson, Mich. 

Samuel Britton Price, CI Branchville, Fid. 

Hugh T. Reed, Sel Richmond, Ind. 

Orlando Lafayette Tindall, CI South Grove, III. 

Samuel Robertson Winchell, CI Lakeville, Conn. 

Fhomas IFvlie, CI Martin, Mich. 



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Class of '70, Uni\1£rsitv of Michigan. 



The followino- did not return to the class in September, 1868 



■ A. L. An(h-e\vs 
'A. A. Andrews ' 
'.S. S. Avery' ' 
A. E. Baldwin 
Jacob Beller, Jr. 
Darius F. Rouf^hton 
Charles A. Bowman 
Delos A. ("ha])])cll 
Edward E. Darrow 
Frank Emcrick 
H. J. (lardner 
Frank X. Cireelc}' 
James 0. I lawks 
Eben L. Hill 
Frank C. Hill 
James C. Holliday 
Joseph C. Hostetler 
Samuel R. Hurford 
James E. Jacklin 
Ilenrv W. Lake 



Joseph L. Logan 
Henry L. Lbrenz" 
(k'oro-e IF Lothrop 
John L. Maxwell 
Win. C'. Maybury 
Z. i\. .McCormack 
Joseph J. Mills 
Cliarles T. Moore 
Win. L. Oo-e 
W. T. K. Preston 
Julius J. I'cllens 
James S. .*>mith 
W^illiam Stagg- 
A. R. Simmons 
b'dward b\ Sox 
Charles M. Taylor 
J. X. Thompson 
Sanuiel W. Walker 
dreenleaf C. Wattles 
W. W. Williams 



Entered the class in September, i86(;: 
Eiii^citr Kcfchiiiit, Sc Xcgaiiiuw Midi. 

These three did not return to the class in the fall of 1869: 

George W. .\llyn Hugh T. Reed 

Maxwell .\. IMiillips 



Di:i'ARr.MKi\'T OF LlTEKATUKK, SciKNCE, AND ArTS. 317 



Class Meetings. 

Tlie first iiiecliii^- for organization of the class was held in the 
"old chapel" (n ( )ctoher 2y . 1866. \'. 1). Cochran was chairman 
and D. !'.. Knniler secretary. Darrow and Walter Johnson were 
tellers, Kinj;- and Thayer rei^isters. After an intermission of ten 
minutes the class proceeded to hallot for officers and the following 
were elected : 

Vincent S. Lovell President 

Albion A. Andrews \'ice-President 

Earle J. Knis^ht Secretary 

Charles S. Carter Treasurer 

Charles J. Kintner Seer 

James E. Jacklin Historian 

Z. K. McCormack Toastmaster 

I'atrick II. r)Uni])us Marshal 

Adjournment was then taken for one week and the election of 
orator, poet and musical director deferred until the next meeting. 

November 3, 1866. 

Meeting called to order by the president, Kumler appointed 
secretary pro-tem. The class proceeded to complete its corps of 
officers and elected 

George T. Campau Orator 

Walter Johnson I'oet 

John A. Paldwin Musical Director 

Earle J. Knight presented his resignation as secretary and the 
class thereu]:)on accepted it and elected Rufus H. Thayer to fill 
the vacancy. 

November 24, 1866. 

President Lovell presided : Thayer, secretary. On motion a 
comnnttee, consisting of Campau, McCormack and Lovell, was 
selected to design and re])ort ffir ado])tion an apj^ropriate class 
seal. Class adjourned for one week. 



318 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

December i, 1866. 

The meeting; was called to order by the president. The com- 
mittee on class seal made its report, presenting a design for a 
seal. The report was received and the seal adopted as our class 
seal. Bates, Darrow and Blackburn were appointed a committee 
to have the design engraved. 

January, 1867. 

President Lovell called the meeting to order, the object being 
to replenish the treastiry. On motion a per capita tax of twenty- 
five cents was levied and the treasurer instructed to collect the 
same. 

June I, 1867. 

The class met in the "old chapel" with Lovell presiding; 
Thayer, secretary. Emerick moved that a committee of four — two 
from each section of the class — be appointed to select a place for 
holding our class supper. Phillips moved an amendment that the 
committee have full power to hx the time and place for the supper. 
The resolution as amended was carried. The president appointed 
Christy, O. H. Wattles, Emerick and Oge as the committee. 
Campau moved that a committee of four be appointed to prepare 
a bill of fare and a program for the occasion. This was carried 
and the president appointed Campau, Bush, Moses and Davock 
as such committee. It was then moved and carried that a com- 
mittee of five be appointed to advise and report upon a hat or cap 
for adoption by the class for sophomore year. The following 
were selected as the committee : Hawks, A. A. Andrews, A. L. 
Andrews, Lovell and Day. A motion to the effect that the class 
supper is not to cost over three dollars per plate and that we have 
nothing stronger than lemonade for drink was carried. To be 
historically accurate, it should be stated that it appears by the class 
record that the class secretary very reluctantly wrote down this 
last resolution. 



Df.I'Aktment of LiTKRATLRi!:, Scikxcf, and Auts. 319 



June 4, 1867. 

President Lovell called meeting- to order in the "old chapel." 
Thayer, secretary. The committee on program for class supper 
reported the order of exercises. Report was received and on mo- 
tion the marshal was instructed to read the same at the class sup- 
per. The committee to decide upon the place for the supper re- 
ported that the Gregory House had heen selected. This report 
was adopted and the committee authorized to print 300 programs 
for the occasion. 

Octoher 12, 1867. 

Meeting called to order by President Lovell in the old chapel. 
The committee on class cap reported and presented samples of 
different styles with prices. On motion a cap with square mortar 
board top with tassel, costing two dollars and seventy-five cents 
each, was adopted. The same committee was continued and re- 
quested to ascertain the number of caps wanted by the class and 
to give orders for the same to be made and delivered. 

It was then moved and carried to proceed to the election of 
class officers for sophomore year. The following were elected : 

Charles S. Carter President 

Eben Leander Hill \'ice-President 

Warren C. \\'illits Secretary 

Walter B. Stevens Treasurer 

George E. Dawson Orator 

Henry C. Ripley Poet 

Maxwell A. Phillips Historian 

Milo E; Marsh Seer 

Henry L. Lorenz Toastmaster 

William J. Waters ^Marshal 

Thomas H. Bush Musical Director 

November 8. 1867. 

The class met in the law lecture room, \'ice-President Hill in 
the chair; Willits, secretary. The meeting was called to consider 



320 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

and act upon the suggestion made by Prof. Moses Coit Tyler that 
the class inaugvtrate a custom of having a public exhibition by the 
sophomore class. ()n motion the class decided to act upon the 
suggestion and passed a resolution favoring the giving of a 
sophomore exhibition. 

November 2 7,. 1867. 
Aleeting called in the law lecture room by the president. On 
motion it was decided to continue the publication of The Oracle, 
an annual first published by class of '69. Motion was made and 
carried that eight editors of The Oracle be elected by acclamation. 
The following were elected : 

George T. Campau Cieorge E. Dawson 

Charles S. Carter Frank Emerick 

Thomas C. Christy \'incent S. Lovell 

Edward E. Darrow Greenleaf C. Wattles 

February 20. 1868. 

President Carter called the class together in the law lecture 
room. Motion made and carried that six be appointed a commit- 
tee to engage mvisic, ushers and make all needful arrangements 
for the first sophomore exhibition to be held on evening of March 
4. 1868. The president appointed as the committee: 
William C. Maybury Harlow P. Davock 

Julius A. Blackburn Edwin Fleming 

John A. Baldwin Frank Emerick 

On motion a tax of fifty cents each was levied on the members 
of the class for meeting expenses of music on the occasion. 

February 24, 1868. 
Meeting in the law lecture room, President Carter presiding; 
Willits, secretary. On motion the tax authorized by the last meet- 
ine: was increased to one dollar on each member. 



April 21, i< 

The president called a meeting in the "'old chapel" for the pur- 
pose of making arrangements for our second sophomore exhibi- 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 321 

tion. On motion the following were selected as a committee to 
secure music and to make all necessary arrangements : Campau, 
Carter, Haven, j\Iarsh, Noble, Stevens, Stocking- and Wing. A 
tax of one dollar each was authorized by motion for the expenses 
to be incurred. 

May 23, 1868. 

Meeting in the law lecture room for purpose of electing a 
board of editors of the University Chronicle for the following 
school year. A formal ballot was taken and the following declared 
elected : Lovell, Darrow, Carter, McCormack. Christy and 
Davock. 

June 13, 1868. 

President Carter called a meeting in the law lecture room. 
Mr. McCormack presented his resignation as one of the editors 
of the Chronicle and Edwin Fleming was elected to fill vacancy. 
On motion it was decided to have a class supper at Hangstefers 
on Tuesday evening, June i6th, and a conmiittee consisting of 
Blackburn, Thayer and Thomson was appointed to make all ar- 
rangements. 

September 17, 1868. 

The president called a meeting" in the law lecture room. The 
question of erecting apparatus on the campus for gymnastic exer- 
cise was discussed and on motion the follow^ing were appointed 
a committee to investigate the practicability and probable cost of 
temporary apparatus : Maltman, Meyendorff, Blackburn, Whit- 
man and Day. 

September ig, 1868. 

Meeting of the class called in the law lecture room, Carter, 
president, in the chair; Willits, secretary. The object of the meet- 
ing was stated by the president to be the election of some one to 
fill the vacancy in the board of editors of the University Chronicle, 
caused by the absence from college of Darrow, who did not re- 
turn in junior year. On motion a ballot was taken and Rufus H. 
Thayer declared elected to fill the vacancy. 

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322 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

September 26, 1868. 

Meeting in the law lecture room was called by the president to 
hear report of committee appointed to investigate as to cost and 
practicalnlity of erecting on the campus apparatus for gymnastic 
exercise. Maltman, chairman, reported probable cost of putting 
tip a pair of swings, horizontal bars, ladders and parallel bars. 
The report was adopted by the class ami the committee was con- 
tinued as a construction committee with full power to carry out 
the plans proposed. 

October 24, 1868. 

Meeting called in the law lecture room by the president for 
purpose of election of class officers for junior year. On motion 
it was decided to postpone the election until the 27th of October 
in the old chapel. 

October 27, 1868. 

Meeting called by the president in the old chapel pursuant to 
adjournment for purpose of electing officers for current school 
year. On motion the election held with the following result : 

Charles G. Wing President 

Alfred Noble \'ice-President 

George J. French Secretary 

Charles M. Wells Treasurer 

William L. Penfield Orator 

Charles J. Kintner Poet 

Thomas Wylie Historian 

Alexander Thomson Seer 

James A. Hay ward Toastmaster 

William J- Waters Marshal 

November 21. 1868. 

President Wing called a meeting in the law lecture room im- 
mediately after chapel exercises. On motion the plan proposed 
by Prof. Moses Coit Tyler for appointments for the junior ex- 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 323 



hibition was adopted. The plan was as follows : Each member 
of the class to write an anonymous article to be inspected by the 
faculty who, without knowing- the authors, to select therefrom 
the requisite number according to merit and to appoint their re- 
spective authors. On motion Ballinger, Howe and Le Fevre were 
appointed to report the action of the class to Prof. Tyler. 

On motion a committee consisting- of Campbell, Barlow and 
Bush, was appointed to consult and report as to the advisability 
of adopting a class cane. 

November 24, 1868. 

Meeting called in the old chapel, President Wing in the chair; 
French, secretary. A motion was made and carried that the ac- 
tion of the class in regard to the plan of appointments for junior 
exhibition be reconsidered. A motion was made that the old plan 
of appointments, that is, leaving it entirely in the hands of the 
faculty, be approved. After extended discussion bv several 
speakers who advocated various methods the matter was post- 
poned for one week. . 

December i, 1868. 

Meeting called by the president in Webster hall. The dis- 
cussion as to methods of appointments for junior exhibition was 
continued and a vote Ijeing taken the motion leaving appointments 
entirely with the faculty was carried. 

The chairman, Campljell, of committee on class cane reported 
recommending a cane similar to that of '69 — malacca stick, head 
of solid ivory with a gold band on which the owner's name to be 
engraved ; cost $7.50. A motion was made and carried that a 
class cane be adopted. 

January 9, i86(). 

Class met in the law lecture room immediatelv after chapel 
exercises. Both president and vice-president l)eing absent, the 
meeting was called to order by Secretary French. P^resident Wing 
having gone away from the universitv for an indefinite time it 



324 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

was moved and carried that the vacancy caused by his absence be 
filled. Ballot was taken and T. Chalmers Christy w'as declared 
elected president for the balance of junior year. Thayer there- 
upon resigned as one of the editors of the University Chronicle 
and Bernard Moses duly elected to fill the vacancy. 

January 20, 1869. 

President Christy called a meeting- of the class in the law 
lecture room following chapel exercises. Davock presented his 
resignation as one of the editors of the L'niversity Chronicle and 
S. R. Winchell was duly elected to fill the vacancy. 

January 30, 1869. 

Class met immediately after chapel exercises. The president 
and vice-president being absent, Secretary French called the meet- 
ing to order. Noble, vice-president, being absent from the uni- 
versity for an indefinite term his resignation was presented by 
Ripley and the class duly elected John C. Howland to fill the va- 
cancy. Campbell, chairman of class cane committee, presented 
for consideration his report, which was in substance the same as 
that made on Deceml)er i, 1868, viz.: recommending a malacca 
stick, the head of ivory with a silver band on which the owner's 
name might be engraved. On motion this style of a cane was 
adopted, except that the band be of gold instead of silver. On 
motion a committee of three — Thayer, Ballenger and Penfield — 
w^as appointed to decide upon a suitable present to be made to 
Professor George P. Williams. 

Alarch 16, 1869. 

President Christy called a meeting of the class in the law 
lecture room for the purpose of considering the question of obtain- 
ing suitable nmsic for the junior exhibition. On motion it was 
decided that a committee of six be appointed to confer with com- 
mittees of the law and medical departments on the subject. The 
following were appointed as the committee : Olds, A'oorheis, 
Davock, French, Bates and Ripley. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 325 

May 19, 1869. 

Meeting' called by the president in Prof. Tyler's recitation 
room. On motion it was decided that the class have a supper to 
be served on Monday night of examination week. The follow- 
ing" were appointed a committee of arrangements : Carter, 
Tweedy and Campbell. It was moved and carried that the class 
glee club be requested to entertain the class with music on the 
occasion. 

June I. 1869. 

The class was called to order by the president immediately 
after recitation in chemistry for purpose of deciding upon the 
hour of holding the class supper this evening. On motion the 
hour was fixed at half past eight o'clock. 

October 16, 1869. 

Meeting called in the law lecture room immediately after 
chapel exercises by President Christy to take action with reference 
to providing music for chapel exercises. On motion Blackburn 
and Fleming were appointed a committee to confer with com- 
mittees from the other classes with regard to the matter. 

November 6, 1869. 

Class met in the law lecture room following chapel exercises. 
The president stated that the object of the meeting was to as- 
certain the wishes of the class in the matter of photographs of 
each member. It was stated that large photographs could be 
secured at twenty-two dollars per hundred. After considerable 
discussion a motion was made and carried that the class secure 
such photographs, and that a committee of three be designated to 
canvass the class and ascertain how many photographs would be 
wanted. The committee consisted of Christy, Thayer and Lovell. 

On motion it was decided to elect officers for the senior year 
at the next meeting to be held one week from this date. 



326 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



November 13, 1869. 

President Christy called the meeting to order in the old chapel 
pursuant to adjournment for the purpose of electing class officers 
for the ensuing- year. Davock was elected secretary pro-tem in 
the absence of Secretary French. ( )n motion the class proceeded 
to elect officers by ballot, and the following were duly declared 
elected : 

George E. Dawson President 

Charles P. Gilbert Mce-President 

Harlow P. Davock Secretary 

Henry C. Ripley Treasurer 

Bernard Moses Orator 

Edwin Fleming Poet 

Walter 15. Stevens Historian 

Charles G. Wing Seer 

Oscar J. Campbell Musical Director 

Patrick H. Bumpus Toastmaster 

Julius A. Blackburn Marshal 

Rufus H. Thayer Magister Edendi 

A\'illiam R. Day Magister Bibendi 

John A. Baldwin Steward 

The committee on class photographs made a report, but no 
action was taken thereon. The subject of a university cap was 
brought before the class and received the approval of nearly every 
member, but no action was taken with reference to the matter. 
After some discussion the marshal was instructed to vote for 
certain persons for chief marshal on the occasion of the first "Uni- 
versity Day." 

November 15, 1869. 
President Dawson called a meeting of the class in the law 
lecture room following chapel exercises ; Davock, secretary. It 
was stated that Blackburn, our class marshal, had been selected 
as assistant grand marshal for "University Day" and on motion 
Alexander Thomson was appointed temporarily to act as class 
marshal on that occasion. 



I)!:i'ARTMENT OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ArTS. 327 

Novemljer 27, 1869. 

Meeting of the class called in the law lecture room, President 
Dawson in the chair. The report of the committee on "University 
Day" was presented and a tax of 75c per capita was authorized to 
meet the expenses. The treasurer was instructed to purchase a 
covering- for the l^anner. Christy, chairman of committee on class 
photographs, reported that fifty-six memhers of the class desired 
the large photographs. (Jn motion the committee was authorized 
to engage Mr. Warner, an Eastern artist, to take the pictures. 
The subject of senior vacation was brought up, and it was de- 
cided to petition the facult}' that the usual vacation be granted 
the class on condition that the members would return for com- 
mencement exercises. Such a petition was drawn up, signed and 
sent to the faculty. 

December 3. 1869. 

The president called a meeting immediately after recitation in 
metaphysics. Christv, chairman of committee on class photo- 
graphs, reported that Air. \\'arrcn had offered to take the photo- 
graphs at twenty dollars per hundred. On motion of Penning- 
ton the proposition was accepted. Campbell moved that a com- 
mittee to make arrangements for class day be appointed ; carried. 
The following were appointed : Campbell, Carter, Campau, 
Lovell and Maltman. Penfield suggested that a mastodon be pre- 
sented by the class to the university. Perry moved that a com- 
mittee be appointed ; carried. Perry and Baker were appointed 
as the committee. 

January 8, 1870. 

Meeting called by the president. Fleming presented his 
resignation as class poet. On motion class adjourned for one 
week. 

January 10, 1870. 

Special meeting called immediately after chapel exercises in 
the law lecture room for the purpose of taking action on the re- 
cent death of our classmate. John \V. Johnson. ( )n motion Wing 



328 Class ok 70, Univkksitv of IMicihgax. 

and Stocking- were desigiiated to escort the remains to the home 
of the parents of deceased at Delavan. Wisconsin. A tax of one 
dollar per member was levied for the funeral expenses of oin* late 
classmate. Lovell presentetl the following, which was adt^pted as 
the sentiments of the class : 

"W e are unexpectedly called to mourn the loss of one who, 
by his character, his uniform courtesy, kindness, ami ntotlest bear- 
ing, had endeared himself to us all. His many good t|ualities. his 
reserved and unassuming maimer, his prompt performance of 
every duty, had gained for him the respect of all who knew him. 
We who have met him in the class room shall especially feel his 
loss, and shall cherish his memor\ more and more as the days go 
by. To his family, in their sad and sudden bereavement, we offer 
our heartfelt sympathy. Theirs is the greater loss, ^'et we may 
assure them that though away from home, he was not without 
frientls. 'Siciv the father of all comfort them in their aftlictioii."' 

C )n motion it was ordered that two hundrcil copies o\ the fore- 
going lie printed. Ripley, the treasurer, aimounced that he luul 
purchased crape for the tise of the members of the class. The 
expenditure was duly autliorized. The class then adjourned to 
attend in a body the funeral services at the Methodist church. 

January 15. 1870. 

^Meeting calletl to order in the law lecture room by the [)resi- 
dent pursuant to adjournment for puqiose of electing a class poet 
in place of Fleming, resigned. Several ballots were taken, but no 
one receiving a majority vote the class, on motion of Lovell. ad- 
jonrnetl for another week. 

Jamtary 22. 1870. 

President l^awson calletl meeting to ortler pursuant to ad- 
journment; Davock. secretary. ( )n motion the class proceeded to 
ballot for class poet and John S. Mahman was declared duly 
elected. 



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J'\-l)ruar\- \J. 1K70. 

The president called a meeting" to consider the aflvisability of 
procuring a statue of Benjamin Franklin as a gift from the class 

to the university. Campbell, Campau and were 

ap]joinled a committee to ascertain expense oi a suitable statue, 
and to arrange for class day exercises. 

March 2. 1870. 

Meeting called ])\- the ])resident t<j bid farewell to classmate 
Meyendorff, who was about leaving the university for a time. 
Christy announced the arrival in town of the class photographer, 
who would ])e ready shortly to take sittings. 

March 5. 1870. 

Meeting called by Vice-President (Gilbert. Abjtion made and 
carried that we invite the glee club to give a ])ul)lic cfjncert for 
the benefit of the class. 

March 7. 1870. 

The president called a meeting to hear report of committee on 
•class photographs. The chairman, Christy, announced that the 
photographer was read\- to take sittings and requested the mem- 
bers of the class to go to his art room as early as possible for that 
purpose. 

April 2^. 1870. 

President Dawson called meeting in the law lecture room fol- 
lowing chapel exercises to hear report of committee on statue of 
Benjamin i'>anklin and on class day exercises. Campbell reported 
cost of statue about $213.00, and cost of music for class day $150. 
He also presented program of exercises as arranged, including 
exercises at the church, exercises on the campus, unveiling the 
statue, dancing on the green, etc. ( )n motion the report was laid 
on the table for one week. Campau was duly elected to deliver 
the address at the unveiling of the statue. ( )n motion of How- 



330 Ci-ASS OF '70, University of Michigan. 

land it was decided to leave with the university a class album con- 
taining photographs of the nieml)ers of the class. A tax of three 
dollars per cajiita was levied to meet the expenses of class dav. 

April 30, 1870. 

Meeting pursuant to adjournuK'nt, President Dawson in the 
chair; Davock. secretary. The report of committee on class day 
laid on the table at last meeting was ado])ted. .\ committee con- 
sisting of Baker. Lovell and . was a|)i)ointed to obtain 

a class medal. r>um]ms was elected to receive the medal as the 
ugliest man in the class and Thomson was elected to present it. 

May 19, 1870. 

Meeting called for the purpose of taking action in relation to 
a class supper. ( )n motion a committee, consisting of Day,. 
Ballenger and Pennington, was appointed to make arrangements 
for a supper. 

May 20. 1870. 

President Dawson called a meeting and on motion appointed 
committee, of which Lovell was chairman, to procure music for 
class day. A tax of two dollars per capita was levied for expenses. 

May 25. 1870. 

^Meeting called by the president to hear report of committee on 
music, but the committee wanted further time in which to hear 
from Detroit. C'ampau reported that the statue of Franklin could 
l)e JM-onzed at an expense of ten dollars, which was authorized. 
Ballenger reported as to cost of class supper, and one costing 
seventv-five cents \^ev plate at Hangstefer's was authorized. 

June I, 1870. 
The president called meeting of the class at Hangstefer's im- 
mediatelv after class supper for purpose of deciding upon the time 
of our first post-graduate re-union. It was moved and carried 



Dki'aktment of Litekature, Sciiixcii, and Aki's. 331 

that our first rc-iinion l)e at commencement in 1873. three years 
hence. The followini^- were elected to rei)resent the class on that 
occasion : 

George T. Campau ( )rator 

John S. Maltman Alternate 

jMarcus Baker Poet 

Edwin I'leming- Alternate 

Charles S. Carter Secretary 

It was moved and carried that each memher of the class write 
to the secretary at least once a year, giving his address at that time 
and information concerning himself for the class record to he kept 
hy the secretar}-. It was moved and carried that the customary 
silver cup he presented at cur first re-union to the classmate who 
shall first become father in lawful wedlock of a "male ho v." 



From Freshman September to Senior June. 

The official sketch of the class, by Walter B. Stevens, class historian in senior 
year, read by him on class-day, June i, 1870, contains so many interesting facts 
and is so much more complete than any review which can now be produced from 
memory that we deem it advisable to preserve it in this book. It is as follows: 

From one standpoint the classes of a generation ma}- he said 
to have the same history. Alike they all show successively those 
traditional characteristics belonging to each of the four ages of 
student life. They plod through the same routine of study, and 
the same college belles enliven their leisure moments. I kit in 
another view each class has an individual history, a record of 
acts and traits peculiarly its own. This, it seems to me, is the 
true field for the class historian. Therefore, within the limits of 
our course. September 17. 1866, and June 29, 1870, to those deeds 
and characteristics which distinguish this class from all others, I 
shall confine myself as closely as possil)le. So without further 



332 L'l.Ass (_)!•■ '70, Ui\i\i':i<srrv ov Mkmican. 



display oi "preliminary egotism" T enter at onee upon (Uir honor- 
able record and legitimate histor\ . 

I'art 1. 

I'"onr years ago the class matricnlated with eji; regularly en- 
rctlknl memhers. Fo-dax' there are Jb candidates for the '"white 
degree." 'Idle class of '68. heretofore the largest ever graduated 
from this department, numl)ered only 52. lUit. to commence at 
the beginning, like Moses and all first-class historians, 1 grant that 
we were once unsophisticated freshmen. We were xerdant and 
made some lihmders. To illustrate, one man mistook Sinclair's 
mill for l!ie university. .Another bitterh' denounced himself as a 
fool because he hadn't stutlied ■"phrenology." 1 le wanted to take 
down the elociuent remarks of our lecturers. .\ third boldly 
offered to escort a I'nion School girl home. She replied that ""she 
could do her own seein' home." This was the same simple- 
minded youth who told that \elocipede story three times in as 
manv consecutive half hours at Professor \\ illiams' reception. 
He also fell in love with a country maid at the circus last year. 
Professionally he is known to you as "" Dribbler. " His frientls call 
him "'(ireelev." we believe on acctumt of his profanity. Put times 
brcught us experience and wisddin. We organized a ball club 
and elected class officers, just as freshmen always do. Six of the 
eleven ofticers are in the class now. We rushed the sophomores 
on the chapel stairs and stole a cap. This rush and the one the 
following year were the severest on record up to last fall. \\ e 
attempted to get the customary class seal, but obtained only a use- 
less stamp. The tlesign was prt)phetic. It represented two men 
anxiously hammering away at geological specimens. Poth men 
and specimens were of doubtful origin. There were no rhetorical 
exercises in our freshman \ear, but we organized three debating 
clubs, the Huron. Aristotelian, and Philozetian. The last has been 
sustained throughout the ctmrse, an achievement of which no 
other class can In^ast. There are i)leasant associatitms connected 
with the old Philozetian; but especially will be remembered the 



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hard cidtr which wc drank on Salnrda\ nights in a classical at- 
musi)herc of (ireek philos()])hy and h\])othctical relatives. \Ve 
were the last class to take and hreak the university temperance 
pledge. Even the man who circulaleil the |)le(l,:^e with so much 
ardor has hroken lln' faith, it is sai<l. 'l"o he ])resident of the 
lecttire association and a (iood rem])lar at the same time is at 
least morally imjjossihle. Three \ears ago the glee chih had its 
origin. .All the mcmhers ha\'e heen from 'ye, with a single excep- 
tion during ])art of last year, h'cjr tw(j things the hoys claim 
special credit; first, they sang for the insane at Kalamazoo; sec- 
ond, they were shaved hy a heautiful harheress at Tecumseh. 
Sophomore t.xhihitions, after a la])se of twentv years, were re- 
vived hy our class. There were two exhihitions, and volunteers 
enough for a third, which didn't come off. We puhlished the Oracle, 
of course, and gave the first and (tnly s()])homore ])rizc dehate. 
One of our prize men is married, the other addressed ytju this 
morning. We re-estahlished the excellent custom of an annual 
class sui)per. We ])Ut uj) the skeleton gymnasium, part of which 
is now standing. In former da\s it did good service; like some 
other things on the cam])us, it now needs reconstruction. The 
idea of a class cane was dro])])ed hy silent consent; fifty-four men 
have successfully estahlishcd the hetter ])lan of aut(jgra])h canes. 
This year, for the first time, an luistern photographer has heen 
engaged. The class will expend ahout $2,000 in pictures. An 
album, cabinet-size, containing photographs of all the class, will 
be deposited in the library. We have also purchased and are soon 
to dedicate a bronzed statue of Benjamin Franklin, to be left here 
as a memorial of '70. So much for indications of class spirit and 
enterprise. As a class we have raised for various worthy objects 
above $1,000, but nothing for broken doors or lifted sidewalks. 

Our record is by no means lacking in examples of individual 
energy. Pedestrian trips have been made to Lansing, Northville, 
Whitmore Lake. Ypsilanti, Dexter and Adrian. Also "Judge" 
walkefl fiut to the poor house and back one morning before chapel. 
It was on one of those jaunts that two prospective clergymen and 



334 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

our worthy class president learned to play billiards. It was one 
of our men who forged a key to the family store room so as to get 
enough to eat. He comes from the South, and, like Cassius, "has 
a lean and hungry look." Another man ground out the conun- 
drum, "What fishes have their eyes nearest the tail?" .\ns\ver, 
"The smallest." Two enterprising men made the trip to Ypsilanti 
bv boat one Saturday. Others tried to follow suit, Ijut their craft 
went to pieces under the second railroad bridge. The wuuld-be 
sailors crawled up the piers and meandered back to town. 

Our professors, I think, have taken more than ordinary in- 
terest in the class. An unusual number have given us receptions. 
Two offered to loan us money. They have granted nearly all our 
petitions. Half a dozen remonstrances in regard to lessons have 
been promptly heeded. Some experiments have been tried with 
the class. We were allowed the choice of several methods for the 
junior exhibition appointments. During the last semester we have 
crossed the "dead line" in the library unmolested. With us grad- 
uate the pioneers of the Latin course, six in number. This is the 
first class to enjoy Professor Ford's lectures and to elect higher 
astronomv. A few experiments have also been tried b_\- the class. 
During the examination in geology, a valuable specimen of coral 
was presented to the museum; but it didn't jiass us all. When 
freshmen, we were guilty of several "bolts." At first they were 
winked at as misunderstandings ; then suspension was threatened, 
and we reformed. Many of the class have taken extra studies. 
This does not refer to the study of geography in the early part of 
freshmen year. One man has recited with every class now in 
college. Another hasn't had a recitation for weeks. We have 
used French and German text-books in some English studies ; 
likewise English text-books in many classical studies. W> read 
more of Homer than an}- previous class. This was just after 
Derbv's excellent translations appeared. The proposition of '69 
to give our best ponyist a silver spur was indignantly declined. 
Whenever the whole class has been assembled we have had to oc- 
cupy "old chapel." If professors then beheld this large class 



Dkpartment of Literature, Sctence, and Arts. 335 

dwindle to the size of its predecessors, tliose half partitions and 
convenient back windows were alone to l)lanie. 

Our accomplishments, in the qeneral use of the term, are not 
numerous. However, we all take pride ; two, in their powers of 
conversation ; twfi, in their musical talents ; three, in the abilitv to 
mind their own business; three, in their good manners; two, in 
playing cards ; and two, in mashing" hearts, whatever that is. 
Forty-six members of the class sing ; fifty-eight play croquet and 
chess ; sixty-four pla}' checkers ; twenty-six "make a joyful noise" 
on musical instruments, if we include in this categorv the Jew's 
harp and bones. 

Our social relations have been most agreeable, both among 
ourselves and with the rest of the world. Social culture is a hobby 
we ride pretty often. Even the most ascetic have l)een drawn into 
the net through sheer sympathy. There is one bashful man who 
just before an entertainment, walks soberly up to the house where 
several sisters live. He knocks with an air of business, and then 
invariably requests the company of the one who opens the door. 
This is a fact. Once we were sadly disgraced, and that was when 
a former class president attempted to carry off a napkin at one of 
our receptions. One of our men cut holes through both window 
and curtain to see how a member of '69 would l)ehave in making 
a call. Two men braved the pestilence and caught the "Ypsilanti 
measles." One records the observation that "measles, girls and 
study don't mix worth a cent." The "Judge" also had a bit of 
experience. He was introduced one evening on the street to a 
lady from the country. With his usual gallantry he oiTered to 
escort her home. The}' took mutual glances of admiration under 
every lamp post, until they came to that long hill on Spring street, 
and then the "Judge" groaned aloud. The spirit indeed was will- 
ing, but the flesh was very heavy. 

Our matrimonial statistics, it is hoped, are correct. Ten mem- 
bers of the class are engaged, and one has "a sort of understanding 
— call it what you will ;" eight have pledged their troth once, and 
then unpledged it again. One beardless youth confesses to 27 of 



336 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



these pledges. He was raised in Massachusetts, and prepared for 
college in the Union School. This is the only explanation I can 
offer. Twenty-eight men have received encouragement, and 40 
expect to be engaged in the course of human events; 61 admire 
the ladies in general ; 36, those of Ann Arljor in particular ; 25 
have a "weakness" for socials; 31 dote on what the poets call 
"pledges of affection." Next to love comes money. Leaving out 
those classmates who live in the place, we have spent over $100,- 
000, or an average of $1,500 apiece. Three men have spent $3,000 
each ; it has cost one man only $675 ; 12 men have supported them- 
selves entirely ; 7, partially. Politically our minds are made up 
as follows : Republicans, 56 ; Democrats, 1 1 : neutrals, 5 ; rebel, 
I ; coming free trade party, 1 ; 26 believe in woman's suffrage, and 
35 in prohibition ; 46 are no7C in favor of the admission of ladies 
into the university. Our 2,3 church members are divided among 
7 churches : Methodists, 1 1 ; Presbyterians, 9 ; Congregationalists, 
6; Baptists. 4; Christian, i ; Independent, 1. 

Part n. 

This part will doubtless impress you with an idea of our mus- 
cular Christianity, and perhaps something worse. Yet I oft'er no 
apology for introducing the following facts. This is class his- 
tory, not class eulogy. Some of our "unfruitful works of dark- 
ness" are to be regretted, and few of them are worthy of imita- 
tion. Still our "secret history" nuist not be entirely passed by. 
When freshmen, we duly aided and abetted in that memorable 
raid on the stove pipes of south college. Burleson's door we con- 
nected with the one across the street in such a manner that when 
either was opened the bell opposite would ring. There was 
enough of bell ringing, door banging, and loud swearing that 
night to satisfy any lover of practical jokes. Then a barricade 
was constructed across the Ypsilanti road. It was composed of 
sundry clothes lines, the gates of several professors, part of Win- 
chell's old fence, a superannuated wagon, etc., etc. At the same 
time an appropriate sign was suspended with Nagley's rope in 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 337 

front of the law building-. Later in the spring the steward's young 
plants were covered several inches deep with university hav. LTp 
to this time we acted in concert with juniors, but no longer. In 
imitation of the "Father of his Country," we cut down a grove of 
scrubby evergreens, which surrounded the cenotaph. They had 
long been a source of frequent profanity among ball plavers. 
Threats never had the desired eiifect on our class. To this a 
cral)bed old fellow, who used to live on Baldwin's hill, can well 
testify. He threatened to shoot any student found on his prem- 
ises, and then woke up one morning to find his chinuiey packed 
with brush and paper, with a filling of sand and mud. Finally 
after freshman class supper we "lifted" sidewalks on Division, 
State, Washington and Huron streets, serenaded the Union School 
girls, and smashed a few windows in old chapel, "just for inci- 
dentals," one tipsy fellow said. That night w^e were fired at on 
Huron street and reprimanded by Burleson, Watson and one of 
the "City Fathers." The Biblical story of the man who "took to 
himself seven other evil spirits," has a sort of application to our 
sophomore year. First the Sigma Tau society was founded, an 
organization intended to "take in" everybody. The constitution 
was a literary curiosity for which Bacchus was chiefly responsible. 
The initiation and the disorder of exercises cannot be described. 
Halls were occupied in all parts of town, but given up as soon as 
rent was demanded. Half a dozen freshmen were "smoked out." 
This is how some were "taken in." Once we were victimized, and 
that was when we called on Letheman. He invited us in and 
then slipped out, locking the door behind him. Soon after this 
a lot of tar l^arrels at the foot of State street were rolled up the 
hill and burned. Men were stationed about town to give the 
alarm of fire, but they only partially did their duty. Then we 
stole Mundy's chickens, the feathers and "omens" being returned 
with the compliments of a certain professor. Another night a 
party took possession of several boats and went up the river. But 
this only ended in a big scare, the boys hurrying ofif and leaving 
the fowls half cooked. An attempt to steal Winchell's chickens 



338 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

failed. More successful was a raid on the hen roosts of a good 
Methodist brother. He had charged one member of the class, 
when a freshman, for half a meal. That half meal lasted two 
semesters, and eleven chickens constituted one item. Ijut chicken 
stealing" was soon reduced to a science. A committee on poultry 
was appointed simply from time to time, and no questions asked. 
One night a huge barbecue was held in schools girls' glen. The 
next time we went in an opposite direction and stole a barrel of 
cider. It was rolled into town as far as the skating park, and 
there divided. Two men (one of them is now maintaining the 
majesty of the law ) sawed ofif three stout posts which the steward 
put down to replace one of the stiles. A professor had kindly got 
his saw sharpened, nevertheless it took full two hours. When 
that unlucky steward opened his door next morning those posts 
fell on his feet. He was either engaged in his morning devotions, 
or else he broke the third commandment. Late in the winter the 
idea of a burlesque on the jimior exhibition was broached. It will 
be remembered that, when freshmen, we pledged to discounten- 
ance all such documents. The promise was put in one scale, the 
force of long established custom in the other, and with a few the 
love of truth kicked the beam. Almost within a fortnight the 
money was raised, the manuscript written, and published in De- 
troit. Then there was some delay in finding a man trusty enough 
to go and get them, b^inally. the last Inirlesques came into Ann 
Arbor one Saturday night in the same car and just across the 
aisle from a professor. The next evening the city was divided 
and the burlesques distributed. There were strange mishaps that 
Sunday night. One man's private papers got into bad company 
and were dealt out with programmes. A stalwart Kentuckian 
scaled a high fence in a manner which would have been creditable 
enough if he hadn't torn his clothes so badly and been running 
awav from a very small dog. The excitement on the following 
morning was subdued but deep. The faculty meetings soon be- 
came very frequent and apparently very interesting. Two mem- 
bers of the class were notified that thev might leave. Matters 



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generally looked serious. Premature graduation isn't so pleasant 
to look upon when it stares one rii^ht in the faee. This was in 
April. The spring months were eoming on. and the i)leasant 
nights favored aetive operations again. Now the eellar of the 
law hnilding is divided, as some of yon know, hy several parti- 
tions, in the northwest eorner is a room corresponding to that 
one on the first lioor where the faculty meet. ( )ne dark night 
just after the spring vacation, several memhers of the class en- 
tered the cellar, no matter how, carrying the famous hull's-eye 
lantern and a huge l)uncli of keys, borrowed from a locksmith 
down town. i\e}s were found to fit the various locks. The car- 
penter's hest chisels were taken to cut screws and render holts 
useless. Mnally nine large holes were bored in the Hoor of the 
faculty room, covered then, as now, with coarse matting. Into 
this corner room of the cellar came diiTerent members of '70, 
night after night. Strange remarks were made in those faculty 
meetings, and duly reported outside by the "lower-house faculty," 
as the boys facetiously termed themselves. Professors talked 
with the utmost freedom. Our respective characters were de- 
scrihetl in no very flattering terms. All who could be suspected 
of connection with the hnrlescpie came in for a double share of 
attention. Different men were called up from time to time. But 
"forewarned is to be forearmed," and they all gave testimony 
which, for ohscurity and uselessness, would have done credit to 
Sam Weller. There was a dead-lock in professorial plans. It 
was the class of "70 against the faculty, and we kept the inside 
track until some time in May. Then the university records for a 
dozen years were missing. A broken window and a frightened 
law librarian were the only traces of the perpetrators. Yet the 
class of '70 was immediately requested in pretty plain language to 
bring back those records. Now I would have this distinctly under- 
stood ; our class did not steal the records. Another class took 
them and buried them. We knew nothing of the affair until the 
aforesaid request was made. But this last act, it seems, was fol- 
lowed by a thorough examination of the cellar. The game was 



340 Class of '70, Unuersitv of Michigan. 

up for us, and a trap was set. At the next meetiiii^- the janitor 
was postetl below to give the alarm. The ])oys entered the eellar 
that night as nsnal, antl made iheir \\;n' ((uieth- to the room. The 
door was opened and the rays of the dark lantern thrown direetly 
in the janitor's face. For a few moments there was dead silence, 
then an aw ful yell and a crash of glass, hive minutes later the 
'iower-lKuise faculty"" halted in the cemetery to take breath. At 
the crv of the janitor the waiting" professors scattered about the 
campus, but with poor success. It was the old story of the fresh- 
man's plea over again. Several men were summoned from their 
beds, but with little satisfaction. It was well towards morning 
when the faculty adjourned. I however, the time was not spent 
to no purpose. The steward, while muler the influence of some 
freak of econotuy, had covered the college walks with ashes. 
Now, on that very night certain members of the class had made 
arrangements to tear u]) all the walk from south college to the 
pebble of '62. The ashes were to be scrapetl up and deposited in 
certain chimneys. Tools were collected, and we waited long for 
the professors to disperse. I'efore morning we knew wh\- our 
plans had been thwarted. You remember what followed : how one 
after another oi the class was called before the facult)-, until it 
was rumored that all our names were put into a hat, then shaken 
up, and the lot drawn in the good old Roman way. At length it 
was understood that a compromise ciudd be effected if the records 
were returned. Immediate expulsion was the other alternative. 
From anonymous sources we learned that on a certain night the 
records might be found in the corner of Professor Sager's yard, 
ddience they were taken and iKuuknl over to a certain professor at 
his home, about midnight. Von know the result : how the class 
was decimated almost in a single day. 

Here very jiroperly ends this part i^i our history. To be sure 
Professor Douglass' horse and cutter were taken out one night 
the following winter, and several members of the class amply 
supplied with university wood. lUu this was charity. We also 
trieil to get exammation papers a number of times, but with poor 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 341 

success. Once we broke into Professor Evans' room and took the 
wrongs paper. How we worked all day vSunday, on the sound 
doctrine thai a man should i^et his ridini,'' animal out of the pit 
even on the Sabbath ; how we j^ot up early Monday morning', and 
then how we were disappointed. 1 need not tell. Another time it 
was impossible to burst open Professor Williams" door. So after 
nearly breaking one man's head, we lowered a little fellow from 
the fourth story. As the result of our misdeeds, six men have 
been expelled, three suspended, and a very indefinite number re- 
primanded. Several rewards have been offered, but no man, I 
think, ever arrested. To those interested in the habits and fcjllies 
of the class 1 would say. that 9 men chew tobacco; 31 smoke; 25 
swear; 28 drink beer; 22 something stronger. Incidentally. 51 
use tea; 57 cofifee. b'orty-six play cards, and 21 billiards; 31 
wear rings; 14 carry canes; 25 support "plugs." All but five have 
"ponied" — you know what that means ; 53 in preparing for recita- 
tion ; 54 in recitation ; and 63 on examination. Forty-one have 
had a slight "difference of opinion" with the folks in the house; 
24 have "borrowed" wood. I use that word in a technical sense. 
Eight have "pulled chickens from the roost ;" 46 have stolen fruit. 

Part III. 

But passing our imperfections by, I come now to the third 
and last part. This contains certain isolated facts having little 
connection with what has preceded or with each other. 

Although the class has numbered 134 diiTerent members; 50 
of the original 99 will graduate. Of the remainder who have 
dropped out, 3. at least, are married; 17 are in other classes or 
colleges. One of our number, during the last year of the course, 
has been called to the better land. The rest are scattered, teach- 
ing, practicing law, engaged in business, all honorable men. In 
the class as now constituted there is the usual complement of odd 
names. Some suggestive of Biblical characters, others of admir- 
ing kinsfolk. For example : Simeon. Emiah, Jacob, Abiram, 
Elijah; also Patrick Henry, Chalmers, Scott, Clay, LaFayette, 



342 Class of "70, Uxivkksitv of Michigan, 



and two \\'asliingtons. Charles is the popular name. \\'e have 
ten of them, antl half as many Georoes. ^\ni all remember how 
the roll was called in chapel : when the names Schock, Stag'g", 
Stocking, Sox, called out applause from dur hereditary foes. 
Also how it wounil up suiigestively in chemistry with Ketchnm, 
Markham. Price. Scmie one said that meant business for Trice. 
Oi nicknames we have plent\. "Judge."" ■"(ireelev."' "Chick." 
"Prex" antl "Cham" will serve to illustrate. Physically the class 
averages well. We have few bodily defects. Two men sulfer 
from ha\ing the heart on the right side; one from a ])alpitati(in of 
that organ in the ]-)resence of young ladies: two humbl\- acknowl- 
edge the C(irn on their feet ; and one has ingrowing toe nails, lie 
is the man who tried to sell us a pair of shoes two years ago. They 
were half an inch too short for him. 

The physical statistics will be given more fullv cm the chart ; 
but one or two facts may be worthy of mention. We have a taller, 
a shorter, a heavier, a lighter, an older and a \-omiger man than 
'69 had. Onv average weight, average height and average age 
are all less than those of the classes of '08 and "0(). ( )nce we were 
given the problem in physics, to determine how large a man ap- 
pears in his own e_\es. Later a professor despairingh- told us that 
if the whole class could be simmered down to one man, he thought 
that anthropological conglomerate would be ht to graduate. Here 
is something to think about. Physically 1 su]-)i)ose this motlel 
youth would be the average man of the class. Mentally and 
morally he would possess the aggregate sum t(Ual oi all our wit. 
wisdom and virtue. A fearful combination, and 1 only enter into 
particulars of the first qualitications. We will christen the youth 
Scz'cnfy. He is 5 feet g inches high ; and his age is 2;^ years 5 
months and 21 days; so you see his birthday falls on December 
10. He weighs 138 pounds and his chest, after inhalation, meas- 
ures ^j\ inches, which shows "a wery good power of suction." 
He wears a number 7 hat and number 7 boots, has blue eyes and 
brown hair, and his temperament is a nu'xtin^e of the billions, 
sanguine, lymphatic and nervous. So much for the lad. The 



Di:i'.\kT.MENT OF LiTKRATUKE, Science, AND Arts. 343 



professor made him ; therefore let him ])ass for a fi,£^ure of speech. 
We have 28 favorite ]ir()se anth(jrs. Macaulay is most popular; 
hjiierson follows; Xcd liuntline and Artemas Ward close the list. 
Of the 17 favorite poets, Shakespeare has 15 admirers, livron i r. 
We have 46 favorite slan.s^ expressions ; "j^osh" is the most classi- 
cal, hut "doi^i^one it" the most popular. The class also has an 
especial ai)prcciation for 35 different sonars. Shoo My first, then 
Home, Sweet Home, Captain Jinks, Coronation, Dixie, and Old 
Hundred. As for the studies of the course, 13 express a prefer- 
ence for mathematics, 10 f(;r natural history. 9 for Greek, 9 for 
modern languaj^es, 6 for histcjry, 6 luental, moral and social 
science, 6 I.atin. 3 physics and human nature. When left to our 
own choice we recreate in 29 different ways ; 1 1 walk, 6 sleep, 
others eat, flirt, saw wood, ])lay croquet, hilliards, and cards, j^o 
to church, read ".Sketches of Creatitjn" and study "Iduman In- 
tellect."" h'inally we confess to a "weakness" for 33 dift'erent 
dishes; oysters first, hash and the wash-dish last. On two thin_^s 
we are agreed; first, we do ncjt regret our ccjllege course; second, 
53 will go to Europe sometime, perhaps. 

And now a word in conclusion in regard to our former his- 
tory, pedigree and prospects. I'orty-two have narrowly escaped 
death. ( )ne nian has heen drowned three tiiues, crushed once, 
strangled once, and shot many times. Xo wonder he is the 
smallest in the class. We also have the first man who can hail 
this university grandmother; for his father was here before him. 
Two of the class fought for the South, 16 for the North, one sent 
a substitute. Another was in the Polish revolution of '63. He 
was captured, and in solitary confinement seven months. His 
first sentence, to serve for life as a soldier in the Russian army, 
was changed to I)anishment for life to Siberia. Through the in- 
tervention of our government he obtained his freedom in March, 
1866. One member of the class was lilind seven years. Twenty- 
four have been connected with other classes either here or else- 
where. One was in '69, but "had to leave on account of bad com- 
pany." As for our pedigree, two are descended from college 



344 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

presidents, and one from a fisherman; 35 are sons of farmers; 18 
of business men ; 8 of lawyers ; 4 of clergymen ; 3 of doctors ; and 
I of an author. Only 5 will follow the occupation of their fathers. 
The law will receive 30; teaching- 11 ; engineering 10; business 7; 
ministry 3; medicine 3; farming 2: journalism 2; 8 are jNIicaw- 
bers — "waiting for something to turn up." 



First Sophomore Exhibition. 

By Class of '70, March 4, 1868. in Methodist Church. 

The Path of Success John Albert Baldwin 

Hero \\ orship Francis W'ayland Jones 

American History from 1880 to i8yo Peter \'oorheis 

Joan of Arc Clark Olds 

The Glory of the h'arm Washington Hyde 

The Enterprising Alan George W. Bates 

Imagination Thomas Harper Bush 

The Oppressed Charles S. Carter 

A Needed Reform Charles Ballenger 

The Capitalist George T. Campau 

The Laboring Man Edward Everett Darrow 

The Delusions of the Age Charles K. Dodge 

The Duty of the Age Bernard Closes 

Faith in the People Edwin Fleming 

Second Sophomore Exhibition. 

By Class of '70, May 6. 1868, in Methodist Church. 

Mental Idleness Aaron Perry 

A Ruined Nation Judson S. Bird 

The Atmosphere Henry C. Ripley 

The Citizens' Responsibility Vlexander Thomson 

The Papal Dominion Sanuiel W. Walker 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 34-5 



The Desire for Knowledge George E. Dawson 

A National Evil Rufiis H. Thayer 

.Secret Political Societies X'incent S. Lovell 

Our Future William R. Day 

Follies of the Age Charles J. Kintner 

Journalism Sherman S. Avery 

Conservatism George W. Allyn 

The Great Drama Thomas Chalmers Christy 

We All Take Pride Charles M. Wells 

National Testimony William C. Maybury 

Mormonism Julius A. Blackburn 

The Irish Question John Scott ^Nlaltman 

The Sophomore. . Patrick H. Bumpus 

Junior Exhibition. 

By Class of 70, March 30, 1869, in Methodist Church. 

Truth Will Triumph William F. Matthews 

Eulogy Abused Rufus H. Thayer 

Conservatism Walter B. Stevens 

Mania for City Life Charles S. Carter 

The Nation's Parricides Thomas Chalmers Christy 

Practical Tendency Thomas H. Bush 

■Greek Oration Franklin Bradley 

■Good Templars Charles K. Dodge 

What America Demands of Her Scholars Washington Hyde 

The Pacific Empire Charles M. Wells 

Light — Physically and ^Mentally Otis E. Haven 

To-Morrow Charles R. Whitman 

Schuyler Colfax Charles Ballenger 

Scotland John S. Maltman 

•German Oration XIarcus Baker 

The Need of the University — A Gymnasium Geo. T. Campau 

The New Era Edwin Fleming 

Antagonism as a Developing h'orce S. Robertson Winchell 



3-iG Cr.Ass OF '70, Uni\t:usitv of ^Michigan. 

Class Day Exercises. 

Mdriiiiig — III the Methodist Chiirrh. 

^Insio — March — Musical lMUU|Uct. — Bciuiix. 

Pra>cr 

"Coronation" — Suns;- hy tlie whole .\sseiiihl\-. 

Presentation of the Class Professor 1^. ( "ilnev 

Response II. S. I'^rieze. President pro tciii. 

Music — ( h-ertnre — " William Tell." — Rossini. 

Oration : The Mind in Reform I'.ernartl Moses 

Music — \\y the (dee Lluh of the L'lass. 
Poem : A Romance of the War John S. Maltman 

P.VRTixc. St)XO — Suui;- hy the Class. 

I. We're gathered now. my classmates. \o gixo our parting song. 

To pluck from memory's wreath the buds, which there so sweetly tlirong; 

To gaze on life's broad rufHed sea, to which we quickly go. 

But ere we start we'll drink the health of Alma Mater, O! 

CuoKcs : 

Oh! Alma Mater. O. Oh I Alma Mater. O. 

But ere we start we'll drink the health of Alma Mater. O! 

J. We go to taste the joys of life, like bubbles on its tide. 

Now glittering in its sunbeams, and dancing in their jiride ; 

But bubble-like they'll break and burst, and lea\e us sad, you know — 

There's none so sweet as memory of Alma Mater, ()! 

,^. Hither we come with hearts of joy. with joy we now will part. 
And give to each the parting grasp, which speaks a brother's heart. 
L'nited firm in pleasing words, which can no lireaking know. 
For college boys can ne'er forget their Alm.i Mater. O! 

4. Then brush the tear-drop froiu your eye, and liapiiy let us be. 
For jo}- alone should fill the hearts of those as blest as we; 
One cheerful chorus, ringing loud, we'll give before we go: 
The memory of college days, and Alma Mater, O ! 

Chorus : 

Oh! Alma Mater, O, Oh! Alma .Mater. O, 

Hurrah! hurrah! for college davs, and Alma Mater, O! 



Di-:i'AKTAiKNT ()[■ LrjKKATURK, SciitXci-:, ANij Akts. 347 

Afternoon — On tlic University Grounds. 

Music — I'otpcjurri. — I'lotoic. 

History of the Class Walter 15. Stevens 

A 1 u sic — C( ill ege S( iiilc. 

Class Prophecy Charles (1. Wing 

Music — Song. 
Presentation (jf Leather Medal Alexander Thomson 

"To P.\T. Br M ITS, tlic ugliest man of '70. with tlie cor.ipliment.-. of hi.s 
classmates. — June i. i<S7o. — Caclcbs. quid iii^am!" 

Music — Song". 

Dedication of the .Statue of Franklin George T. Campau 

Music — "Auld Lang Syne." 
Smoking of "The Last Cigar," and J^'arewell. 

TJic Uiiii'crsily Chronicle, speaking of class day, said: 

The class day exercises of "70 tO(jk i)lace (ju Wednesday, June 
1st. This was the fifth annual class day celehration, and in com- 
pleteness of arrangements and general interest surpassed any of its 
])redccessors. At half-])ast lu'ne in the uKjrning the class gathered 
on the campus, and, having formed a procession headed hv the 
Detroit ( )pera House ( )rchestra, marched to the Methodist 
Church, which was, as usual on such occasions, tilled to overflow- 
ing. After the class had occu])ied the reserved seats, it was pre- 
sented by Professor ( )lney in a brief, but appropriate address, 
which was responded to by Acting President Frieze with fitting 
remarks of congratulation and farewell. The orator and poet 
both fulfilled their parts with marked success and were greeted 
with well deserved applause. Mr. Moses' address on the "Mind 
in Reform" was very carefully and solidly written ; nothing was 
said for luere show and s(nuid, but the whole production was 
thoughtful, dignified, and worthy its author and its occasion. Mr. 
Maltman deserves no less praise for the excellence of the poem 
which he recited in his characteristicall\- animated and taking 
style. W'e regret very nmch that we have not got space to i)ul)lish 
both oration and poem. 



348 



L"l.ASS OV '70, L'MNI'.USriV ok iMu llUiAN. 



At two (I'clook in tlic aftenidon a lars^e assenilih- gathered mi 
the campus Xo witness tlic rcinaininj; exercises of the ila\. The 
class ii'atliered about a platform erected in the rear of the law 
buildini;-. anil, after nnisic hy the hand, listened to the "llistorv of 
the Class" hy Walter !'>. Stevens. Then followeil a college song" 
and the "(."lass Trophecy,"' hy Charles (i. Wing. r>oth of these 
pnulnctions were well deli\'ered, listened to with marked attention 
and warmly apphuuled. The sharp hits and spic\- allusions in 
which they ahoundeil were heartily enjoyed h\ the initiated, and 
some of the revelations oi secret historx called forth expressions 
of wonder from our inisoithisticated visitors. Atter another song 
came the presentation of a leather medal hearing upiMi a silver 
plate the following inscrij^tiiMi : "Vo Tat Ihnnjnis. the ugliest man 
of '70, with the compliments iii his classmates. June i. 1870 — 
Caclcbs, ijiiid again!" Idie presentation si>eech was made hy 
Alexander Thomson, who set forth in a striking and undeniahle 
maimer the great hlessings conferred upon society hy homely men, 
inasnuich as the\- are good to frighten had children, don't ilrivc 
innocent maitlens to ciimmit suicide on their accomU, and increase 
the heaut\- o\ the rest of mankind hy contrast, i'at responded in 
the happiest vein. Though he had not the phik^sophical mind of 
Socrates, uov the elo(pience oi Cicero, nor \et the decj) jyenetra- 
tion of Webster, he could llatter himself that he was as homely as 
all three put together, and in the medal he found his reward. 

"A leather medal — how tine it looks. 

Lettered and made on a beautiful plan; 
Something" imheard of in college books. 
Aird \et bestowed on a homely man. 

Coveretl with siher and duly stamped. 

A pleasant thing for the eye to scan ; 
If this is the way a fellow is serveil, 

( Ml, w ho would not he a homely man !" 

A song closetl this part of the exercises, after which the class 
marched to the enclosure reserved for them about the statue of 



Dki'AKImknt of Ln i;KAri!Ki;, Srii'.NCp:, and Auis. 'Mi) 

r>cnjamin I'^-anklin, which thov had placed upon the campus as 
a nienmrial i;ift tn (/////(/ inatcr. The (le(hcator\- achhess h\- ( leort^'e 
T. C'anipau was ap]u-o])riatc ami well rccei\c(l. lie dwell upon 
I'^raukliu's hi.^h claim to ihe respect aud adiuiratiou of scholars, 
on account ot his untiring' eftorts t'or the ad\aucemenl of science 
and education; and justly concluded that the class ^i\ "70 could 
lea\'e hehind them no more tittine memorial. \t the close of the 
address the class united in sini;in<;- "Atdd l.am; S\ni',"" aud then 
adjourned to the shade of the trees hack o\ south coIIcl^c to smoke 
"the last ci,t;ar." Alter an hour ot jollii\' ami fun. tln' crowd dis- 
persed with heart\- cheers for the class of '70. the facuit\, Acting- 
President l-'rieze, and others. 

26th Annual Commencement. 

Class of '70, June ::9t!i, 1870, in the Mellioilist t'luirch. 

(This program was arranged with music at proper intervals.) 

1. Latin ('ration — ]:\ .\ihilo .\ihil kit . . . . \\ ooster W. In'man 

2. ( )iu- Ahuuni and .\hna Mater ( )scar J. C'am])l)ell 

3. American I h)mes Walter Ik Stevens 

4. The Ideal of ThouiL^lu Washington llyde 

5. Comets Marcus Ikiker 

6. Liheralism. True and k'alse T. Chalmers Christy 

7. ( )ur Irredeemahle ("urrency Lucius Ik Swift 

8. The I'uritication of ( )ur Courts of Justice. .. Win. L. Tenlield 
<). Inlhiences of Illustrated Press (iei^rj^t' T. ( 'ampau 

10. Why ( 'ondemn Ivxpediency h'dwin IdeminjT^ 

II Ciovernrfient of ( tur I 'ni\(.'rsity X'incent S. Lovell 

Conferrini;' of decrees as tollows: 

.M 1X1 Nc I'.-Nci n'1':i:r. 
Clarence ^^lortou Ikiss, Charles IMieli)s (iilhert. William James 
Waters. 

( i\ 11, i:.\(;iNEKK. 
Judson Slatford Ihrd. John Loveland Culley. Harlow Lalnier 
Davock. Luther Llliott k'eri^uson, Charles Lhelps Cilhert. Jaiues 



350 Class of '70, University of ]\Iiciiigax. 

Alfred Hayward. Charles Jacob Kintner, Ceorge Washington 
JNIickle, Michael Alexander Adolph Aleyendortif, Alfred Noble, 
Henry Clay Ripley. Warren Chaffee Willits. 

r.ACIIELOR OF SCIENCE. 

Charles Simeon Carter. William Rufus Day. Harlow Palmer 
Davcck. ^^'illiam Thomas Emerson. ^Jorris lUshop Foster, John 
Collins Howland, Eugene Ketchum, John Scott Maltman. Milo 
Elijah Marsh. Clark Olds. Darius Comstock Pennington. Aaron 
Perry, William Henry Schock, Alexander Thomson, Oliver Hart 
\\"attles, Charles Manley Wells. 

r..\CHE1.0K OF I'HILOSOPHV. 

Oscar James Campbell, Washington Hyde, Owen Edgar Le 
Fevre, Bernard IMoses, Leonard Emiah Stocking, Lucius Burrie 
Swift, Charles Cordon Wing. 

I!.\CHE1.0K OF ARTS. 

Arthur Clark Adams, Marcus Baker, John Albert Baldwin, 
Charles Ballenger, Henry Hoyt Barlow, (ieorge Washington 
Bates, Franklin Bradley, Wooster Woodruff' Beman, Julius 
Abiram IMackburn, James Harrison lUanchard, Patrick Henrv 
Bumpus, Charles hrancis Burton, Thomas Harper Bush, George 
Throop Campau, ( )scar James Campbell, Thomas Chalmers 
Christy, Eugene I'rank Cooley, George Ellis Dawson, Charles 
Keene Dodge, Charles Stouton Edwards, Russell Errett, Robert 
Newton Fearon, Achilles Finley, Edwin Fleming, George Jay 
French, Otis Erastus Haven, Frank Howard Howe. Francis \\ ay- 
land Jones. A'incent Smith Lovell. William I'reeman [Matthews, 
William Lorenzo Pentield, Samuel P)ritton Price, Walter l)arlow 
Stevens, Rufus Flildreth Thayer, Orlando LaFayette Tindall, 
James Fisher Tweedy, Peter \'oorheis, Albert William Weisbrod, 
Charles Rudolphus Whitman, Samuel Robertson Winchell, 
Thomas Wylie. 

(Three received two degrees each.) 

The riiiz'crsitv Chronicle said of the exercises: 
"Again, for the twenty-sixth time, the 'great commencement 
dav" has come and gone, and seventv-six voung men. like the 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 351 



polyp's offspring:, have been cut adrift from their mother, left to 
fasten to some other rock, to spread their antennae and snare their 
own prey. Assuredly the class of '70 have just reason to feel 
proud of the manner in which alma mater has celebrated the com- 
mencement of their real life work. At an early hour the campus 
presented a lively scene, the students and alumni gathering" in 
large numbers and passing the intervening time in renewing old 
friendships and recalling the many incidents, varying from grave 
to gay, of college life and doings in the good old times. 

jVt half past nine the procession was formed, consisting of the 
undergraduate classes, the alumni of all the departments of the 
university, the faculties, the regents, and the invited guests. 
Headed by the band, the long procession marched to the Methodist 
church and occupied seats on the stage and main floor, the latter 
having been reserved until its arrival. In spite of the intense heat, 
rendered doubly oppressive by bad ventilation, every available foot 
■of room was occupied at the earliest possible moment, and a large 
number were disappointed in not obtaining admittance. 

The exercises were opened with prayer by the \'ery Reverend 
Dean Helmuth. of London. Canada. The program of speakers 
and subi'ects will be finmd in another column. As a whole the 
exercises were highly creditaljle. both to the speakers and to the 
class which thev represented. The absence of excessive radicalism 
and 1nmcoml)e, which too often predominate on such occasions, 
was a noticeable and praiseworthy feature. At the close of the 
exercises the various degrees were conferred upon the candidates, 
whose names are given elsewhere. The degree of Bachelor of 
Philosophy was conferred for the first time, those receiving it be- 
ing the pioneers in the Latin course. Three gentlemen obtained 
two degrees each. The grraduates in pharmacy received the new 
•diploma conferring the degree of Pharmaceutical Chemist. 

In the afternoon the alumni and invited guests assembled on 
the campus, and having been formed in procession by the marshal, 
Julius A. Plackburn, marched to the law lecture room, which had 
been fitted uj) as a dining room. There all, to the numlier of 



352 Class of "70, University of ]Michu;a.\. 



several liundred. were cordially welcomed by Actinq- President 
l-'rieze. The (■//('/ dc ciiisiitc was a well known Detroit caterer, and 
the arrangements left little to he tlesired. After the dinner came 
nnmerons toasts, interspersed with college songs. The responses 
were for the most part happy, and perhaps above the average of 
after-dinner speeches. Some hearty enthnsiasm for alma iiiatcr 
was shown by old aliiinni. and there were hints of better days to 
come from those high in authority. Regent Walker actetl as toast- 
master, and fulfilled his duties in a very acceptable manner. Ad- 
dresses were made by lanernor Baldwin. ex-Superintendent 
Pierce. Alajor General Cook, the \ cry Reverend Dean Helmuth, 
General Cutcheon. and others. ^lany pleasant reminiscences of 
the earlv history of the university were calknl forth from those 
who were its founders, antl the spirit manifestetl throug;hout the 
entire meeting- was all that could be asked for. After the singing- 
of "Old Hundred" the benediction was pronounced by the Rev. Dr. 
Gillespie. 

The exercises of the day closed with a reception given by Act- 
ing President Frieze at his residence to the graduating class and 
the other alunnii. together with the invited guests of the luiiversity. 
A large number were present, and received most hospitable treat- 
ment. Taken altogether, the exercises of the day were very satis- 
factory and well befitting the first quarter-centennial celebration 
of the universitv. Harmony and renewed enthusiasm for alma 
niatcr prevail among the alumni. l>oth oUl antl new. and the pros- 
pects of the institution for the next quarter of a century are very 
flattering, to say the least. The invitations sent out to the alumni 
in all parts of the country, not only brought together a large num- 
ber at the appointed time, but calletl forth warm and cheering re- 
sponses from graduates in Elaine, California, the Territories, and 
nearly all the intervening states. That the university may enjoy 
many happ\" returns of this anniversary day is the wish of every 
one, and that they will ever staml by alma mater is the renewed 
pledge of all her sons." 



Dl-:i'AKTMENT OF LriliKATUKK, SciKNCIi, AND ArTS. 353 

Students' Lecture Association. 

The class (if "70 filled pdsitions in the cdtjis of officers of the 
association as follows : 

Freshman Year — A'incent S. Lovell, nieniher Executive Com- 
mittee. 
Sophomore Year — Charles S. C'arter. Recording Secretary. 

Charles liallenoer, memher Executive 
Committee. 
Junior Year — llernard Moses, Vice-President. 

Charles S. Carter. Corresponding Secretary. 
Walter 1'.. Stevens, Assistant Treasurer. 
Charles Al. Wells, memher h'xecutive Commit- 
tee. 
Senior Year — Charles I'.allenger, Eresident. 
W'alter V>. Stevens, Treasurer. 
Henry C. Ripley, memher Executive Committee. 
The speakers hefore the association were : 

lUI'.SIl MAX \\:.\\<. 
President Erastus ( ). Haven, John \\. (iough, Horace Greeley, 
]*)isliop 1'h(5mas M. Clark, Prof. Anson J. L^pson, Carl Schurz, 
Frederick Douglass, Theodore Tilton. llenjamin F. Taylor. Wen- 
dell Phillips, Robert Collyer, Petroleum \'. Xashy, Henry Vincent, 
Jaiues E. Murdoch. 

SOl'JIO.MOKIi Vl'.AK. 

Prof. Moses Coit Tyler, Charles Sumner, John ( j. Saxe, John 
G. Holland, Paul 15. Du Chaillu, Prof. Anson J. Upson, Frederick 
Douglass, John 15. Gough, Edwin I'. Whipple, Anna E. Dickin- 
son, Theodore Tilton. Dr. John Eord, Wendell Phillips, George H. 
Pendleton. 

irxioK ^■|•;AK. 

Prof. Edv, ard P. Evans, James E. Murdoch. Dr. Isaac 1. 
Flayes, Prof. Anson J. P'pson, Isaac T. Hecker, Mendelssohn 
Ouintette Club, Henr}- \incent, Theodore Tilton, Olive Logan, 
Anna E. Dickinson, Pnjf. Moses Coit Tyler, Frederick Douglass, 
I'etroleum \\ Xasby. 

sf:xior yf.ak. 

Prof. Alexander Winchell, George l-'rancis Train. I'Llizabeth 
Cady Stanton, Prof. James H. Seelye, Bayard Taylor, Justin Mc- 

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Class of 70, Univeksitv of Michigan. 



Carthy, Major J. W. Powell, Kate Field, Anna E. Dickinson, W. 
Morley Punshon, Rev. Robert Collyer, The IMendelssohn Quin- 
tette Club. 

Students' Christian Association. 

OFFICERS FROM CLASS OF 'jO. 

Sophomore Year — Walter B. Stevens, Librarian. 

James C. HoUiday, Assistant Librarian. 
Junior Year — T. Chalmers Christy, Vice-President. 

Charles Ballenger, Secretary. 

Walter B. Stevens, Treasurer. 
Senior Year — T. Chalmers Christv, President. 



George \\ . .VUyn 
John A. Baldwin 
Charles Ballenger 
George W. Bates 
Thomas H. Bush 
Oscar J. Campliell 
T. Chalmers Christy 
John L. CuUey 
Charles S. Edwards 
Robert N. Eearon 
Frank N. Greeley 



MEMIIFRS ]'ROM /O. 

James C. HoUiday 
James E. Jacklin 
Eugene Ketchum 
George W. Lake 
Joseph I>. Logan 
William V. ^Matthews 
Bernard Moses 
Walter 15. Stevens 
Lucius 1^). Swift 
Rufus H. Thayer 
Peter \"oorheis 



Thomas Wylie 
It is probable that a few more names should lie added to the 
foregoing list. 

The Oracle. 

The following were elected November 2^. 1S67, as the board of 
editors for sophomore year : 

T. Chalmers Christy Edward E. Darrow 

George T. Campau Frank Emerick 

Charles S. Carter \'inccnt S. Lovell 

George E. Dawson Greenleaf C. Wattles 



Department of LriERATURE, Science, and Arts. 355 



The University Chronicle. 

The followin"- were the ccHt^rs junior vear : 




Christy 
Carter 



Lovell 
Moses 



Fleming 
Winchell 



Edward E. Darrow was elected as a meml>er of the board, bnt 
as he did not return to the university in junior year Rufus H. 
Thayer was elected to fill his place and served until January. 1869, 
when he resigned and Bernard Moses was elected to fill the 
vacancy. 

Harlow P. Davock was elected as a member of the board and 
served until January, 1869, when he resigned and S. R. Winchell 
Avas elected in his place. 

editors senior ye.\r. 
Thomas H. Bush Bernard Moses 

Edwin Flemine Walter B. Stevens 



356 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

The University Glee Club. 

The .Seventy Glee (Tul). which, in the senior vear. gave con- 
certs in many of the cities of Micliigan, came into being without 
much forethought. In the junior year, six or eight of '70's con- 
genial souls met together occasionally, liy chance, the usual wav, 
and sang college songs. They sang liecause they were bubbling 
over with good spirits, and must give vent to their feelings. That 
year the club consisted of Thomas H. Bush. S. R. Winchell. \ in- 
cent S. Lovell, ( )scar J. Campliell. Julius A. I')lackl)urn, Edwin 
Fleming, and John S. Alaltman. They sang around the campus, 
on the streets, at the post office, and informally wherever a crowd 
of boys came together. Perhaps once that vear thev sang in public 
— at the debate given i)y a law society. 

The ambition to give public concerts was of very gradual 
growth. The club began to have rehearsals soon after the be- 
ginning of the senior year and in the course of a couple of months 
felt sufficient confidence to give serenades on pleasant evenings 
in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. Continued ]:)ractice soon brought 
results in precision and greater harmony, and little by little the 
plan of perfecting enough songs to make up concert programs 
developed. 

Winchell. who was acting principal of the Ann Arbor high 
school, was unable to give any time to the club and George E. 
Dawson, who had been teaching during the junior year, took his 
place. The make-up was : 

Bush and Dawson, ist tenors; 

Lovell and Campbell. 2d tenors ; 

Blackburn, 1st bass; 

Fleming and ]Vlaltman, 2d bass; 

And Baldwin, ]iianist. 

The club soon became known as The University Glee Club. 

Baldwin was also put down on some of the programs as prima 
donna, for it was in that role he astonished the natives all over 
Michigan, and won und\-ing fame. He was in the possession of 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 357 

a remarkable falsetto which reached notes within the range of the 
best prima donna only, with a volume which was astonishing. 
Can any one wlio heard him trill and soar ever forget it? He 
never failefl to bring; down the house with, long applause. The 
Glee Club was one of the features of the parties and class func- 
tions, and, of course, they sang and took a notable part in '70's 
memorable class day. 

In the fall of 1869 the Episcopal church at Ann Arbor was 
completed. Just before the dedication, on ( )ctober zy , 1869, an 
organ and vocal concert was given in the church. Mrs. Darrow 
and Professor Walter were among those who took part. The 
Glee Club were down for two numbers : First, a chorus from II 
Puritani, which was often the opening" piece of their concerts. It 
was a rousing" piece, and when sung with spirit put the audience 
into a svmpathetic mood. \\'ith other \\-ords, some of the frater- 
nities are still making the streets of .\nn Arlior reverl^erate with 
the melody of that tune, handed down from one g-eneration to 
another. The other selection the clulj gave that night was, "The 
Two Roses," b}- Werner, a quiet piece which gave a chance to 
show finish and fine work. This was their first appearance as 
organized for the year, and, although they did well enough, still 
there was nothing worth}- of special notice about their work on 
that occasion. It was in the free and easy al)andon of college 
song"s that they excelled. 

January 28, 1870, was the first time when the occasion and 
the audience combined to give the Glee Club the opportunity to 
show how thev could sing college songs for the boys. That night 
thev furnished the music at the annual exercises of the Webster 
Society. The club was down for four numbers : First, "Where 
Would I lie," l)y Carl Zollner ; second, "Stars of the Summer 
Night" ; third, "Old Noah," and fourth. "The Old College Bell." 
The exercises were held in the Cnitarian church, which was 
packed to the doors with a howling mob of boys — no co-eds in 
those days. The audience began to enthuse with "Old Xoah," 
and demanded an encore, which was given. When the program 



358 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

closed with "The Old College Bell." the uproar knew no bounds, 
and the audience refused to .go luitil a response was made to the 
encore. This gave the club their first reputation. It was the 
rollicking, off-hand way they sang that captured the boys. The 
Websterians were so pleased, they presented each member of the 
club with a copy of the Carmina Collegensia. 

Regular rehearsals had been held since the possibility of a 
series of concerts in outside to\\ns had grown into a fixed con- 
clusion and it was thought that now a sufficient repertoire had 
been prepared to make up concert programs. Campbell had been 
made musical director, though suggestions by the various mem- 
bers were freely given. I'aldwin was pianist and lilackburn was 
advance agent and business manager, and proved to be most 
efficient. 

It was determined, after much deliate, that the citizens of Jack- 
son, Michigan, should first enjoy the special favor of a concert 
by the club. Arrangements were made accordingly, a hall en- 
gaged and the concert advertised. 

This first concert of the club took place at Union Hall. Jack- 
son, JNIichigan, Friday night, February 4. 1870. It made a deep 
impression, more particularly upon the memloers of the clul). It 
had been arranged, after much deliate. that the clul) should march 
on to the stage, wearing the university caj). form in a symmetrical 
semi-circle and removing the caps, the action accompanied by a 
graceful liow, thus greet the audience. L'nfortunately for the 
impressiveness of this ceremony, some one of the carload or two 
of students who had accompanied the club from Ann Arbor, made 
a return greeting with a groan "C)-oh-h-h," which resounded 
through the house and while it destroyed the overpowering effect 
which the entrance was expected to produce, added much to the 
hilaritv. 



Df.i'artment of Literature, Science, and Arts. 359 



The program was as follows : 

rXU'KRSlTY GLEE CLLH. 
Thos. H. ]')ush. 1st l>nor. 

G. E. Dawson, ist Tenor. 

O. J. Campbell, 2(1 Tenor, 

\'. S. Lovell, 2(1 Tenor, 

J. A. Blackburn, ist Bass. 

J. A. Maltman, 2d Bass, 

E. Eleming, 2(1 Bass, 

J. A. Baldwin, Pianist. 

I'ROORAIVJ. 

Part Eirst. 
Openinj^: Chorus (7/ Piirifaiii ) . 

Last Cigar ( Harvard ) Solo and Quartette 

3- Shucking Corn ( Brown ) Solo and Chorus 

4. Litoria (LTiiversity of Michigan ) Solo and Chorus 

5. L'pidee (Yale ) Solo and Chorus 

Two Roses ( JJ'enier ) By the Club 

A[enagerie ( Amherst ) Solo and Chorus 

Part Second. 

Where \\^juld T Be ? ( Car! ZoUucr ) By the Club 

Peachblow Earm ( Rochester ) .Solo and Chorus 

Ouodlibet ( I", of Mich. ) In four parts with Choruses 

Image of the Rose.. . .Solo, vocal accompaniment, and Chorus 

Old Xoah { Hamilton ) Solo, Trio and Chorus 

Opera Comique By our Prima Donna — Ualdwin 

Stars of the Summer Night ( Mixllcr ) liy the Club 

A little Earm Well Tilled Quartette 

Rolling Home, and Good Xight Song By the Club 

At this concert the club retired from the stage after every 
number, returning for the next, but in all succeeding concerts 
chairs were arranged on the stage and the club retired only be- 
tween the parts of the program. 

The attendance at the concert was large and the members of 
the club were nuich encouraged. 



360 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

Friday evening, March 4th, the chib drove across country to 
Northfield and g-ave a concert, being entertained at Thayer's home 
in a royal manner. March iith, the annual pul)Hc exercises of 
the Alpha Xu and Literar}- Adelphi were given in the L'nitarian 
church. The Glee Club furnished the music, giving five pieces 
and two encores. Saturday evening, March lyth, they gave a 
concert at Ypsilanti. l*^ri(la\- evening, Alarch 25th. the club fur- 
nished the music for the high school exhibition at Adrian. They 
were entertained at the best homes of the city, and had a most 
enthusiastic reception. I'he whole town were at the exhibition 
and long and continued applause greeted their songs. The next 
night they gave a concert at Monroe. Although the night was 
dark and drearv, they had a g(x^d audience. After the concert 
thev were given a reception at the young ladies seminary. ^Ion- 
day night, [March 28th. they gave a concert at Ann Arbor. It is 
needless to sav, that being among appreciative friends, the oc- 
casion was most uproarious. In those days the Medic' and Law 
Commencements came about Ai)r!l first, and the Lits. had a week's 
vacation. The "Glee Fellers." as the hayseeds sometimes dubbed 
them, seized this opportunity to star it. They sang at Kalamazoo 
two different nights, IJattle Creek, Cirand Rapids and Hastings. 
At the latter place P.arlow gave them an elaborate supper. Liut 
they always thought Cirand Rapids was their banner town. It 
was Prof. D'C)oge's old home. He spent a few days there before 
the concert, countenancing the affair and recommending the good 
people of the city to come out and hear how the boys could sing. 
And they came out, a house full of the best the town afforded. 
The audience inspired the singers, the singers jollied the audience, 
and taken all in all it was a most harmonious meeting. Everybody 
was happ\-. A very tine reception was given them after the con- 
cert. They remained over Sunday, and that is a red letter day 
with them, even after thirty years. The club stopped at Sweet's 
Hotel, where there were numerous families, including young 
ladies, deeply interested in the university. These, by impromptu 
receptions in the spacious parlors and halls of the hotel, gave a 



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taste of that elysium which can be enjoyed on earth onlv when 
hearts are yount;-. The following- is the program o;iven on that 
trip, and is about what was usnallv sung' at their concerts: Part 
first — 1, Opening- Chorus (II Puritani) ; 2, Where Would I Be? 
(Carl Zollner) ; 3, Shucking Corn; 4, Image of the Rose ( Reich- 
ardt ) ; 5, Peachlilow l^'arni ; 6, Upidee ; 7, Last Cigar; 8. Little 
P'^arm Well Tilled. Part second — i. March ( Pecker) ; 2, Young 
(3ysternian ; 3, Ouodlibet ; 4, Litoria ; 5, Chainj^agne Song; 6, 
Opera Coniique. by the prima donna — l>aldwin ; 7, ( )ld Xoah ; 8, 
Menagerie; y. Rolling Home and Good Night Song. The trip 
proved a financial success, and the bovs divided (piite a sum of 
money on their return to Ann .\rb«r. 

Saturda}- evening, May 7th, they sang in l^'cumseh ; 'Mav i ith, 
in Saline, and Saturday evening. May 21st, in Marshall. During 
the senior vacation they made another tour, singing June 2d, in 
Jackson; June 3. in ( )wosso ; June 4, in Saginaw City; June 6, 
in East Saginaw; June 7, in Pay City; June g, in Flint; June 10, 
in Pontiac ; Jmie 13, in Coldwater; June 16, in Manchester. Final- 
ly, Friday, June 24, they furnished the music at the annual com- 
mencement of the Ypsilanti I'nion Seminar\-, giving six numbers. 
At Jackson they visited the state prison and sang a few pieces 
at dinner time to "a crowded house." They never had a more ap- 
preciative audience. They visited the Insane asylum at Kalama- 
zoo, and their music fairly charmed the inmates. Afterwards the 
doctor in charge sent them a very urgent request to come again 
and sing to them. Pie ofi^ered to furnish transportation and en- 
tertainment, if they could only give those unfortunates another 
such a treat. Idiey were comi>elled to forego the pleasure on ac- 
count of many other engagements. At Flint they were entertained 
by the alumni. When out serenading they came to a fine place and 
were invited in. Mr. Hyatt, of Harvard '47, was entertaining an 
old classmate whom he had not seen in fifteen years. The boys' 
coming proved a happy coincident, and helped recall many scenes 
of their own college days. It is needless to say the best in the 
larder was set out. The next night, at Pontiac, they had a recep- 



362 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



tion, and the hilarity was continued to such a late hour, the hoys 
took an early train, without taking- the trouhle to go to hed at all. 
Their fame had spread over the state, and almost dailv thev had 
invitations to go to various places and sing. Hillsdale College 
urged them to come and furnish the nuisic for their commence- 
ment. This was the first college glee cluh that had given concerts 
around the state, and everywhere they met with the most flattering 
reception. Their audiences were wildly enthusiastic, and the press 
notices highly laudatory. 

It nuist he rememhered that these concerts of "70's Glee Cluh 
were given at a time when there were no annual trips of university 
glee cluhs through the country. Our cluh was a Bahnhrcchcr. 
Its success musically was undouljted. The voices were good, the 
enthusiasm inextinguishahle and the rendering of the songs was 
given with a precision, verve and harmony that always met the 
approval of the audiences. 

Of the meml)ers themselves there were none who could not 
appreciate fun and with such capital spirits as Blackhurn, Camp- 
hell and Baldwin the entire period of the cluh's association en 
route, hehind the scenes, at receptions antl in the hotels was an 
almost unhroken series of pranks and jollification. Each concert 
furnished reminiscences which were the basis of unending future 
gibes and reminders. 

The concerts were a success financialh in the sense that all the 
expenses of travel, printing and advertising were defrayed out of 
the proceeds without the necessity of contribution from the mem- 
bers or of calling for outside aid. 

In June, 1873, at the triennial when the class cups were pre- 
sented, at public exercises in the crowded Methodist church, the 
members of the Glee Club were on hand and sang a few of the old 
songs. That was the last time they ever appeared in pul)lic. lUish, 
Lovell and Blackburn have passed on to the other shore, and it is 
not probable that even a quartette can be brought together again. 
at a class reimion. Sic transit gloria nitiiuii. 



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Alpha Nu. 

OEEICERS EROM CLASS OE '/O. 

Freshman ^'ear — Frank Dradley, Lilirarian. 

Charles S. Edwards, Assistant ^Marshal. 

George E. Dawson, Assistant Lihrarian. 
Sophomore Year — Charles S. Edwards, Assistant Marshal. 

William L. Oge, Secretary. 

George E. Dawson, Lihrarian. 

Bernard Moses, Assistant Lihrarian. 
Jnnior Year — Edwin Fleming, \^ice-President. 
(1st Semester) Walter B. Stevens, Jimior Critic. 

Peter \'oorheis. Treasurer. 
(2d Semester) Frank P)radley, \'ice-President. 

Washington Hyde, Treasurer. 

Charles M. W^ells, Junior Critic. 
Senior Year — Charles (_t. Wing, President. 

B. T. K. Preston, Treasurer. 

Frank Bradley, Senior Critic. 

George W. Bates, Marshal. 



Arthur C. Adams 
Sherman S. Avery 
Ahner L. Andrews 
George "V\^ Allyn 
Marcus Baker 
John A. Baldwin 
George W. liates 
Judson S. Bird 
Frank Bradley 
James D. Burr 
Thomas H. l;}ush 
George T. Campau 
Georo-e E. Dawson 



MICMIiEKS ERUM CLASS OE "/O. 

Harlow P. Davock 
Charles S. Edwards 
Robert N. F"earon 
Edwin Fleming 
George J. French 
James D. Hawks 
Eben L. Hill 
John C. Howland 
James C. Holliday 
Washington Hyde 
Samuel R. Hurford 
John W. Johnson 
Charles |. Kintner 



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Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



Joseph L. Logan 
Vincent S. Lovell 
George H. Lothrop 
William F. Matthews 
William C. Ma}bur\- 
Michael A. Me}enclortl 
Bernard Moses 
Alfred Xoble 
William L. ( )ge 
Clark Olds 



Julius J. Pollins 
Henry C. Ripley 
Walter B. Stevens 
Leonard E. Stocking 
Rufus H. Thayer 
Peter \'oorheis 
Charles ^1. Wells 
S. R. Winchell 
Charles G. Wing 
Thomas Wvlie 



Literary Adelphi. 



OFFICFKS FROM CLASS OF /O. 

Freshman Year — ^^'illiam L. Penfield. Secretary. 

Charles S. Carter, Librarian. 

Charles Ballenger, Assistant Librarian. 

George W. Mickle, 2d Assistant Librarian. 
Sophomore Year — John L. Culley, Secretary. 

John L. ]\Iax\vell, Assistant ^Marshal. 

George W. ^lickle. Librarian. 
Junior Year — Charles Ballenger. \'ice-President. 
(1st Semester) Charles S. Carter, Treasurer. 

T. Chalmers Christy, Junior Critic. 
(2d Semester) Maxwell A. Phillip, \'ice-President. 

Milo E. Marsh, Treasurer. 

Charles Ballenger, Junior Critic. 
Senior Year — Charles Ballenger, President. 

Eugene Ketchum, Senior Critic. 

Aaron Perrv, Marshal. 



MEMl'.ERS FROM CL.\SS OF /O. 



("harles Ballenger 
Henry H. Barlow 
Patrick PL Bumpu^ 
Oscar J. Campbell 



Charles S. Carter 
T. Chalmers Christy 
John L. Culley 
William R. Dav 



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Charles K. Dodge 
William T. Emerson 
Luther E. Eerguson 
Achilles Einley 
Morris B. Foster 
James A. Hay ward 
Erank H. Howe 
Eugene Ketchum 
Henry W. Lake 
^lilo E. Alarsh 
Tohn L. Maxwell 



George W. Mickle 
John A. Mitchell 
Charles T. Moore 
William L. Penfield 
Darius C. Pennington 
.\aron Perry 
ALaxwell A. Phillips 
Lucius P. Swift 
Alexander Thomson 
( )rlan(lo L. Tindall 
Warren C. Willits 



Philozetian Debating Club. 

OFFICERS. 

Sophomore Year — Joseph L. Logan, President. 

Abner L. Andrews, A'ice-President. 

William E. Matthews, Secretary. 

Charles Ballenger, Treasurer. 
Junior Year — Rufus IT. Thayer, President. 
(Tst Semester) Charles AL Wells, A'ice-President. 

Charles E. Burton, Secretary. 

John W. Johnson, Treasurer. 
(2d Semester) Charles Ballenger, President. 

Peter A'oorhcis. \'ice-President. 

Milo E. Marsh, Secretary. 

Charles J. Kintner, Treasurer. 
Senior Year — Charles S. Edwards, President. 

John C. Howland, \'ice-President. 

George W. Bates, Secretary. 

Charles E. Burton. Treasurer. 



Charles Ballenger 
Henry H. Barlow 
Georire W. I5ates 



MEMDERS. 

Jacob Beller, Jr. 
Charles V. lUirton 
Wuoster \\'. P.eman 



366 



Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



Judson S. Bird 
Patrick H. Rumpus 
Thomas H. Bush 
Charles S. Carter 
John L. Culley 
Charles K. Dodge 
George E. Dawson 
Edward E. Darrow 
Charles S. Edwards 
Achilles Finley 
Morris B. Foster 
John C. Rowland 
Washington Hyde 
John W. Johnson 
Francis W. Jones 
Owen E. Le Fevre 
John L. Logan 



\'incent S. Lovell 
Milo E. Marsh 
^\'illiam V. Matthews 
George W. ^klickle 
Alfred Xoble 
Clark Olds 
Maxwell A. Phillips 
Samuel B. Price 
Henry C. Riple}' 
Walter B. Stevens 
Leonard E. Stocking 
Rufus H. Thayer 
Alexander Thomson 
Peter Voorheis 
Oliver C. Wattles 
Charles M. Wells 
Charles G. Wing 
Thomas Wvlie 



Aristotelian (Debating Club.) 

Frank Emerick President 

Z. K. ^NlcCormack \'ice-President 

Henry L. Lorenz Secretary 

Harlow P. Davock Treasurer 



MEMBERS. 



A. A. Andrews 
Darius Boughton 
William R. Day 
Harlow P. Davdck 
Frank Emerick 
Joseph C. Hostetler 



Edward P. King- 
Charles J. Kintner 
Henry L. Lorenz 
Z. K. ^NlcCormack 
Lucius IC Swift 
[Mortimer H. Stanford 



Samuel W. Walker 



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Huron Debating Club. 

l^ernard Moses President 

Milo E. Marsh \ice-President 

John L. Cullev Secretary 

:\I EMBERS. 

Sherman S. Avery Milo E. ]Marsh 

Judson S. Bird D. C. Penning-ton 

Charles S. Carter Henry C. Ripley 

John L. Cnlley Aaron Perry 

Delos A. Chappell Edward F. Sox 

John A. Aiitchell Alexander Thomson 

Bernard Moses Warren C. Willits 

Clark Olds Greenleaf C. Wattles 



Lower House Faculty. 

Freshman year seemed to have passed withont Ijringing any 
memljers of the class of 1870 into special prominence; but the 
leaven was working" during' all that year in class room and in the 
"Latin Quarter" of Ann Arbor, and in our struggles with '69. 
The truthful historian of our class will doubtless describe else- 
where how valiantly we met the insidious and the open attacks 
made ui)on us 1)}' sophomores. It will be recalled, too, that "69, 
in its sophomore year, produced a memorable mock prog'ram of 
the Junior exhibition, more than usually scandalous in substance 
and form, an<l that the Sherlock Holmes of the faculty made a 
record in running- down the guilty parties who were barely saved 
from expulsion. ( )ne of the members of '69, upon whom guilt 
was fixed liy conclusive evidence, was a very popular fellow and 
one of the best, if not the very best, of scholars in his class. He 
was saved from decapitation only by an indirect assurance to the 
faculty, on the part of the entire student bod}-, that, thereafter, 
the mock program business should l)e cut out. This was not the 



368 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

first time in the liistory of our country that platform promises, 
made in the heat of a campaign, subsequently failed of fulfillment. 

It was perhaps too much to expect that a hoary-headed custom 
of this character, which had evoluted into a tradition, could be 
broken oft' ahrujitly and instantly consigned to the limbo of a 
forgotten past. At any rate, the class of 1870 had in it a resolute 
inner circle who refused to submit to the galling legislation of the 
faculty on this suliject and, in fierce protest against the violent 
trespass on a sacred tradition, broke all past precedents by the 
publication and distribution of a mock ])rogram which literallv 
l)urned the air with shocking allusions and double entendre and 
heated faculty blood to the seventh degree. It was a shocking- 
thing to do and possibly inexcusable when viewed from the stand- 
point of the faculty disciplinarian or the general promoter of good 
morals. However, it appears to be true that the sober grey-headed 
and bald-headed member of '70, who is interviewed thirty-five 
years later, feels little inclined to subnfit any apology and rather 
regrets that he was not in the center of that guilty circle. Possibly 
this is so because he now realizes that, no matter how heinous the 
oft'ense, thirty-five years aft'ords am])le time within which to re- 
form and make amends and that much ma_\- be righteouslv excused 
to the hot blood of youth. 

It would not do, even at this late day. to lie too specific as to 
the events of that stormy period when the faculty sat in nightly 
session, striving to unravel the mastery surrotmding the author- 
ship of this incendiary document. Pending this searching in- 
vestigation, made largely under the leadership of the lamented 
Moses Coit Tyler, the program syndicate olitained access to the 
basement of the old law building, located witnesses beneath the 
faculty room and secured the advantage of a full report, at first 
hand, of the designs adopted by the faculty sleuths and of the testi- 
mony they were accumulating. Made bold by their success in 
this respect the syndicate overlooked the possibility of the dis- 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 369 

covery of their ruse by the faciihy and one nig"ht ran into a net 
spread for them which resuhed in the capture of Waters, red- 
handed in this spring- movement, he running- (hrectly into the arms 
of "Tulil)y" Watson. ( )n that same eventful night the members 
of the class might have been seen hastily slipping through the 
basement windows of the law building and making a cork-screw, 
close-to-the ground, retreat through the campus, skillfully evad- 
ing the faculty pickets who were in hot pursuit. Back streets and 
back entrances were used in gaining their rooms, and on.e of them 
was successful in reaching his quarters, whence his exit, as well 
as his return, were equally unknown to the lynx-eyed mistress of 
the house. Later she testified before the faculty that he "had not 
been out of the house that night," thus establishing a faultless case 
of alibi. This man has adorned the bench and admits that in his 
subsequent judicial experience he has never been able to tolerate 
alibi as a line of defense. 

We all recall that a few of our esteemed classmates found the 
faculty pace a little too hot for them and were translated to other 
educational centers, some to Cornell and some elsewhere. One has 
never explained just why he left Ann Arbor abruptly before the 
end of sophomore year and nobody is enquiring about it now. 

However, at the beginning of junior year, sober minded, re- 
pentant sinners came back to Ann Arbor from their homes, clothed 
in sack-cloth and ashes, self-pledged to the avoidance of all earthly 
pleasures and of all questionable diversions. The serious work of 
college life was then taken up amid tears and remorseful remarks 
respecting the alleged mistakes and lost opportunities of the last 
two }ears. I'hat any mistakes were made, or any opportunities 
missed, which are worth the while counting, may well be cpies- 
tioned. It is not alone the faultless student in the class room who 
reaps the largest harvest. The race of life is not infrequently won 
bv some one who was verv irregular at the college training table. 



370 



Class of '70, University of INIichigan. 



Oscar J. Canipliell 
Eugene F. Cooley 
William R. Day 
Robert N. Fearon 
Edwin Fleniino- 



John A. Baklwiu 
Thomas H. Bush 
George T. Campau 
Harlow P. Davock 



The Fraternity Boys. 

ALPHA DELTA PHL 

( )wen E. LeFevre 

John S. Maltman 

Alfred Noble 

Rufus H. Thayer 

James F. Tweedy 

Greenleaf C. Wattles 

CHI PSL 
?\Iiohael A. Meyendorff 

DELTA KAPPA EPSILOX. 

S. Robertson Winchell 
Hamline J. Gardner 
James D. Hawks 
William C. Alayinu'y 
^\'illiam L. ( )tje 



KAPPA PHI LAMBDA. 
Charles F. Burton Henry ^^^ Lake 

Delos A. Chapped Zuinglius K. McCormai 

Benjamin T. K. Preston 



John L. Culley 
John W. Johnson 



Arthur C. Adams 
Henry H. Barlow 
Julius A. Blackburn 
Frank Bradley 
T. Chalmers Christy 



PHI DELTA THETA. 

D. C. Pennington 
L. E. Stocking 
Charles ]\L Taylor 

PSI UPSILON. 

C)tis E. Haven 
Frank H. Howe 
Lucius B. Swift 
Arthur R. Simmons 
William Stagg 
Wallace W. Williams 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 371 



SIGMA PHI 

A\'illiain T. Emerson Charles P. Gilbert 

(ieorge H. Lothrop 

ZETA PSL 
Clark Olds Sherman S. Avery 

I'rank Emerick 

Independent Organization. 

OFFICERS FROM CLASS OF 'jO. 

Sophomore Year — I'ernard Moses Secretary 

John L. Maxwell Treasurer 

Junior Year — Charles G. Wing- \'ice-President 

Senior Year — Charles S. Carter President 

'70 on the Diamond. 

As described by the Unizvrsi/j' Chronicle of October 31, 1868. 

Last Saturday afternoon the junior class had a mufit' game of 
base ball. The playing was so fine, and the amount of skill dis- 
played was so great, that we append a l^rief summary of the game : 

First Innings — CJampbell out on the first base l)v pitcher. The 
young giant, Weisbrod, now steps up, sends a red hot ball to right 
field, makes his second, and then home on passed balls. Barlow 
to bat ; navigates safely to the third base, but there runs upon a 
reef. Wing out on three strikes ; side out. 

\"oorheis to bat ; makes his first. Stevens is put out on first, 
Avhile A'oorheis steals home. Day is out on three strikes, while 
Haven sends a fly ball into Thayer's hands. 

Second hillings — Dodge out on first base by pitcher. Stock- 
ing sends a ball down towards Ballenger, who very kindly gives it 
a wide berth. Carter now breaks a bat and Thayer brings Carter 
home ; Campbell makes his third, and Bumpus, after running 
around the home base two or three times, finally touches it and is 
declared home. Weisbrod out on first ; Barlow and Wing both 
make their bases, and Campbell, Barlow and Wing reach home. 
Dodge out on foul, caught by Haven ; side out. 



372 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

Alatthews makes his second and then home. Perry out on 
three strikes. Ballenger makes his tirst : Ripley sends a splendid 
ball to the right and brings all that is left of Ballenger home. 
French and \'oorheis make their bases. Stevens out on fly. by 
Thayer, Day out on foul by Weisbrod, and Ripley out on base. 

Tliird Innings — Carter and Stocking do well and all interest 
turns towards Bumpus. \\ho, after sending a fine fly into Haven's 
hands, persists in running to the first base. Thayer now sends a 
splendid ball to the right field and makes his first, preferring to 
steal the rest. Campbell, Weisbrod and Barlow reach home, but 
Wing comes to grief upon the third base ; side out. 

French sends a fine fly and is followed by Voorheis, who sends 
the ball towards the medical building. French, X'oorheis, Stevens 
and Day by successive differentiation steal home. ^latthews steals 
too much ; Ripley and French out on fouls. 

Fourth Inn.ings — Dodge out on third base; Stocking out on 
foul. P)Umpus sends a fly into third baseman's hands. White- 
wash. 

A'oorheis sends a ball upon a chemical investigation. Stevens 
follows ; Day out on foul ; Matthews out on foul by Weisbrod ; 
Perry out on third base. 

Fifth Innings — Thayer breaks another bat, the result of Day's 
patent twist. Campbell sends a fine fly and Weisbrod is out on 
first. Barlow sends a ball down to Ripley, who, after dropping 
his hat and turning a smumersault, determines to try it again. 
Wing is out on first and Bumpus on three strikes. Side out. 

Ballenger picks up the heaviest bat on the ground, takes oft' his 
hat and proceeds to business. Ripley sends a fly into Thayer's 
hands, who puts out Ballenger on the second base, the best play 
of the game. Stevens sends a red hot ball to the right field, which 
is held bv Carter in a manner that the "Atlantics" might have 
envied. 

Sixth Iiuiings — Thayer, Campbell, Wing and Weisbrod make 
their tallies. Barlow out on first base. Dodge out on foul, by 
Haven. Stocking sends a fly to the center, which is finely caught 
by Day. Side out. 

Dav makes his first, while Haven is out on a fly, caught by 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 373 

Weisbrod. Perry is caught out Ijy Carter. l>allenger fails to 
make his first liase. 

Seventh Innings — Carter does well and I'.unipus. by a desper- 
ate struggle, makes his first. Thayer brings r.umpus to the sec- 
ond base, and Campbell in bringing Patrick Henrv home, is out 
on first, by pitcher. Thayer now enlivens the scene, by stealing 
home. Weisbrod and P)arlow make their tallies, but Wing and 
Dodge score a zero, making the side out. 

Ripley and French make their tallies. Voorheis is out on first. 
Stevens makes his second base by tumbling over Carter. Barlow 
not being much on the tumble, Stevens is conditioned on the third ; 
Day is out on foul. 

Eigliili Innings — Campbell, Stocking and Thayer make their 
tallies. Bumpus is out on fly. Carter on first base, and Weisbrod 
finds in Day an obstacle to his fine fly. Side out. 

Haven, Matthews and Perry make their tallies. Ballenger is 
out on a foul, Ripley is out on first base, by catcher, and Stevens 
finishes the game by three futile attempts to hit the ball pitched 
with lightning celerity. 

We give below the score. The game was called by mutual con- 
sent at the end of the eighth innings. 

R. O. R. O. 

Campbell, 1. f 5 2 Stevens, ib 2 5 

Weisbrod, c 4 3 Day, c 2 4 

Barlow, 3b 4 2 Haven, p 3 2 

Wing, lb 2 4 Alatthews, 3b 2 2 

Dodge, c. f 1 5 Perry, 2b 2 3 

Stocking, s. s 3 3 ' Ballenger, c. f 2 3 

Carter, 2b 3 1 Ripley, 1. f 2 3 

Bumpus, r. f .2 4 French, r. f 3 i 

Thayer, p 6 o \'oorheis, s. s 3 i 



30 24 21 24 

Umpire, Julius A. Blackburn. 
Scorer, C. M. Wells. 



374 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

Miscellaneous Items. 

Committees on publication of the Uiiiz'crsify Casta! ia: 
1867- "68 — Mncent S. Lovell, George E. Dawson and Edward E. 

Darrow. 
i868-"6q — Charles Dallenger. Charles ^NI. Wells and Walter B. 

Stevens. 
i869-'7o — Charles S. Carter. Charles Ballenger and George E. 
Dawson. 

Committee on publication of the University Palladium : 
For i869-'7o — Michael A. Meyendorff, William R. Day, Harlow 
P. Davock, Lucius B. Swift and Charles P. Gilbert. 

L'niversity Librar}- Reading- Room Committee : 
For i869-'70 — Pxlwin Fleming. Frank liradlex' and \'incent S. 
Lovell. 

Lucius B. Swift was chief marshal for the literarv department 
on the occasion of the first celebration of Universitv Dav. 

Julius A. Blackburn was assistant grand marshal for all the 
departments on the same occasion. 

Bernard Moses received the second prize (four competitors) 
in the Alpha Xu society prize debate. January 18, 1868; subject, 
Resolved, that Free Trade should be the policy of the United 
States. 

In the public exercises by the Alpha Nu and the Literary Adel- 
phi, February 20. 1869. William L. Penfield delivered an oration 
on "Lessons of Blood." 

Li the public exercises by the same societies March 11. 1870, 
Charles M. W'ells delivered an oration on "The Bible in Schools." 
Alexander Thomson a poem, "On the Sea and on the Shore." 
Debate: "Should the Pardoning Power be Abolished?" Affirma- 
tive, William F. Matthews and Peter A'oorheis. Negative, William 
L. Penfield and Harrv B. Hutchins. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 375 

r.ASE HALL CLUB, 1 869. 

George E. Dawson Mce-President 

Oscar J. Cainpbell Secretary 

Charles J. Kintner Treasurer 

Tiilius A. lilacklnirn and EuQ-ene F. Coolev also were members. 



Our Instructors. 

The following- were living at last accounts : 

Martin L. D"( )oge. LL.D., Ann Arbor, Mich. 

Edward Payson Evans, A.AL, Nymphenburg.AIunich, Bavaria. 

George Benjamin Merriman, A.M., Washington, D. C. 

Stillman \Mlliams Robinson, C.E., Columlnis, O. 

The following are dead : 

Erastus Otis Haven, D.D., LL.D., d. Salem, Oregon, August 
2, 1881. 

George I'almer \\"illiams, LL.D., d. Ann Arbor, Sept. 4, 1881. 

James Robinson Boise, LL.D., d. Chicago, Feb. 9, 1895. 

Alexander Winchell, LL.D., d. Ann Arbor. Feb. 19, 1891. 

Henrv Simmons Frieze, LL.D., d. Ann Arbor, Dec. 7, 1889. 

De A'olson Wood, A.M., d. Hoboken, N. J., June 27, 1897. 

James Craig Watson, LL.D., d. Madison, Wis.. Xov. 23, 1880. 

Lucius Delison Chapin, D.D., d. Phillips, Fla., June 18, 1892. 

Edward ( )lney, LL.D,. d. Ann Arbor, January 16, 1887. 

Adam Knight Spence, A.M., d. Nashville, Tenn., April 24, 
1900 

Charles Kendall Adams, LL.D., d. Redlands, Cal, July 26, 
1902. 

Allen Jeremiah Curtis, A.AL, d. Washington, Alich., Dec. 28, 
1871. 

Moses Coit Tyler, LL.D., d. Ithaca, N. Y., Dec. 28, 1900. 

Benjamin Franklin Cocker, D.D., LL.D., d. Ann Arl)or. April 
8, 1883. 

Corvdon La Ford, ALD., LL.D., d. Ann Arbor, April 14. 1894. 



376 Class of '70, Universitv of Michigan. 



Students in the University. 

From 1866 to 1870. 

1866-7 1867-8 1868-9 1869-70 

Resident Graduates 13 10 4 

Seniors 37 48 39 74 

Juniors 46 48 75 65 

Sophomores -ji '^'j 68 81 

Freshmen 99 1 04 91 112 

In INIining- Engineering 5 8 11 2 

In Selected Studies 41 59 74 68 

In Pharmacy . . 20 36 

In Higher Chemistry 35 51 34 24 

Total in Literary Dcp't 335 418 422 466 

In Law Department 395 387 342 308 

In Medical Department 525 418 358 338 

Total in Lniversity 1255 1223 1122 1112 



Re-Unions. 



On the evening- of November 7th, 1871, about a year and a 
half after grackiation, that mutual attraction which has ever 
characterized the members of '70 brought seventeen of us together 
at an impromptu gathering in Ann Arbor at the corner of Main 
and Washington streets. The following responded to the roll call : 
Baker, Beman, Blanchard, Bumpus, Burton, Bush, Day, How- 
land, Hyde. Marsh, Pennington, Price, Thomson, Tweedy, \"oor- 
heis. Whitman, and Winchell, being all who were then in Ann 
Arbor, except Kintner. Fifteen of these were at that time con- 
nected with the university. 

The first regular re-union, as pre-arranged, was held in June, 
1873. We had looked forward with joyous expectation to this 
meeting from the time of leaving the university with the blue 
ribboned diplomas. During the intervening time numerous reports 
had gained circulation to the effect that several candidates for the 
"class cup" were in the field. Excitement ran high, insuring a 
large attendance at the re-union. The secretary was expected to 
institute an investigation as to the relative merits of each contest- 
ant. His eft'orts in that direction developed the fact that no less 
than nine new-comers were anxious to know whether he or she 
had won the race. The question of priority was involved in much 
doubt. Even the "Judge," an expert, after wrestling with the 
problem, threw up the sponge, somewhat to the detriment of his 
former excellent judicial reputation. Finally the ivliolc issue was 
referred to a committee who decided, as was to be expected, that 
'70 had surpassed all former classes and had two boys born first. 
Two class cups must therefore be presented at the re-union. Ar- 
rangements were made accordingly. On coming together at Ann 
Arbor the following were counted : 

377 



378 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

Ballenger, Bates. Beman. Bird, Blackburn, Bradley, Bumpus, 
Burton, Bush, Campau, Campbell, Carter, Cooley, Dawson, Emer- 
son, Ferguson, rieming, Gilbert, Haven, Rowland, Kintner, 
Lovell, jNIaltman, Marsh, Mickle, Pennington, Perry, A^oorheis, 
Waters, Wells, Whitman and Wincheil, several of whom had their 
wives, and one of whom had a "class boy." 

The program of the afternoon exercises, in the Methodist 
church, was as follov/s : 

1 . :Music By '70's Glee Club. 

Prayer. 

Music By Glee Club. 

Introductory Remarks By President Angell. 

Welcome of "70 Dr. Cocker. 

Response By whole class, a song. 

Oration By George T. Campau. 

Music By Glee Club. 

Poem By Edwin Fleming. 

Music By Glee Club. 

Presentation of "Class Cups" By C. M. Wells 

First Response By Charles Ballenger. 

Second Response By S. R. Wincheil. 

Music By whole class. 

A large concourse of people, the Ann Arbor friends of the 
class, filled the audience room. The members of the class who 
were present occupied seats on the platform with members of the 
faculty. President Angell in his introductory remarks said that 
he should always regret that he was not connected with the uni- 
versitv soon enough to have made the intimate acquaintance of the 
class : that he had frequently heard the class spoken of as a re- 
markable lot of fellows, and that from the appearance of the pro- 
gram, which provided for the presentation of a class cup to each 
of two bovs born first to members of the class, he believed that 
they would do a good thing for the future of the university, as it 
was the only class of which he ever heard that had two boys born 
first. 



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Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 379 

After a college song by the glee club, Dr. Cocker welcomed the 
class back to Ann Arbor and to the university in a very felicitous 
address. Among other things he said he had expected to be called 
upon merely to present the class formally to Dr. Angell, but that 
seemed unnecessary, as they appeared to be all well acquainted 
with him. He said that he considered himself a member of "70, as 
he had entered upon his professorship while they were seniors, 
and would always remember how they put the freshman professor 
through, asking him questions, wise and otherwise. He remarked 
that when the class of '70 was launched on the sea of life he be- 
lieved it possessed more brain power and lung power and wind 
power than any class that had been graduated previously, and that 
he was glad to know that about twenty-four of their number had 
power and foresight enough to commit matrimony. 

George T. Campau, the orator of the occasion, said in part : 
"After our congratulations and heartfelt happiness upon meet- 
ing dear old classmates at our re-union, the condition of our be- 
loved university and the subject of education in general are themes 
upermost in our minds on an occasion of this kind, and nothing is 
more natural and appropriate than that the alumni, whenever op- 
portunities offer, should give expression to their ideas on those 
subjects which their own experience in college and subsequent 
life may have taught them ; and whether these ideas be right or 
wrong, we all know there is nothing like a free interchange of 
opinion to produce and establish satisfactory conclusions in regard 
to all subjects. What little I have to say this afternoon, I most 
sincerely believe, although it may appear to smack somewhat of 
heresy concerning belief and practice. I therefore ask pardon to 
begin with, for uttering sentiments not as complimentarv as are 
usual and expected in speaking of our university. The question 
which I propound to you and myself is, did we as a class make 
the very best use of the time we spent in this institution of learn- 
ing? Were we permitted to employ those four years most profit- 
ably, or on the wdiole could a better scheme of education have 
been pursued by us in order to prepare ourselves for launching 



380 Class of '70, Uni\'ersitv of Michigan. 



forth into the world as it now exists, and attaining those objects 
in life which we strnggle to possess ? 

"I for one, believe that nnich. very much, valuable time was 
misapplied which could have been employed to far better advant- 
age. It has always seemed to me that our education should have 
been more practical, in that, while our minds were being strength- 
ened, developed and enlarged liy mental labor, that labor should 
have been expended on subjects which would have made us better 
informed and more accomplished than we are or ever can hope to 
become. 

"It seems almost sacrilegious for me in these surroundings, to 
mention the study of the classics with anything but reverence and 
approval, and 1 most certainly do advocate their study to a limited 
extent, but I must confess with sorrow, that 1 heartily, Imt now 
vainly regret having devoted so much time in studying the dead 
and buried languages, which might have been applied not only to 
the modern languages, but to ether equally necessary studies 
which were entirely cnnvded out and neglected for the classics. 
Three years were expended in their study while preparing for 
college and the greater part of four years in college. It required 
at least two hours each day to prepare for the Latin and Greek 
recitations and an hour each day in reciting them, making in all 
six precious hours every day for seven long years and at the only 
time of their lives, when men can devote themselves exclusively to 
study. And in the words of the inspired poet I often feel like 
groaning out that sad refrain, 'Of all sad words of tongue or pen, 
the saddest are these, it might have been' OtJicrn'isc. 

"Now the classical course was well enough for those entering 
the universitv as professional antiquarians, who will in their 
future researches have occasion to revive and employ the dead 
languages, but for us who compose the great majority, wdio have 
to contend with the living practical, busy present, it seems really 
too bad that the classics should have been forced upon us in such 
wholesale quantities, to the neglect of more useful knowledge. 
Three years at the high school spent in learning the construction 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 381 

of the classics were well spent, no doubt, for upon them are 
founded all modern languages ; but college days are not quite 
eternal, and the trouble was that so much of our time was devoted 
to the classic foundation, so-called, that there was no time left for 
the superstructure of modern languages, our own included, all of 
which were ccmparatively passed over with merely a glance. 

"lUit few students, except those aiming at professorships, can 
study the defunct languages with any heart, for there is no en- 
couragement in picking the old bones when students feel that 
their time is being laid out in studies which they, like their fathers 
before, will drop immediately the moment they receive their 
diplomas. 

"But, it is said, 'think of the mental discipline of Latin and 
Greek — the memoralile history — the political economy, and the 
important position of the classics in modern institutions — the mys- 
terious, indefinable influence upon the mind, etcetera.' True 
enough ; on the other hand, we say why not gain all this and more 
too l)v honestly studying classical histor\-, literature and economy 
in our own language, and thereby get a more full, rounded, and 
satisfactory knowledge of those subjects than by squirming 
through disconnected and miserably meagre portions of the 
original as we now do. I hereby affirm, from personal oljservation 
and information, that at least yo out of every lOO students ab- 
solutely shirk the drudgery of wearisome originals by using the 
()xford translations without stint, which are so much easier and 
better than their own unsatisfactory attempts ; and this is so, even 
among the good l)oys whose consciences become very elastic on 
this subject. The ancients themselves whom we profess to ad- 
mire, acquired their vigor of mind, every originality of thought, 
and refinement of taste, not by studying out what happened, i,8oo 
years before their day, but by inquiring into the secrets of nature, 
the science cf political and social economy, and the philosophy of 
government ; always something of vital importance to themselves. 

"When the English universities were founded there was then 
good reason for all students to acquire Latin and Greek, because 



382 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 

all their professions — law, medicine and theology — were written, 
studied and practiced in the classical languages ; Init that day and 
that reason no longer exist. We now pettifog, physic and exhort 
in plain English, or other spoken tongues, and there is no good 
reason why we should not study the history, economy and cus- 
toms of the Latins and Greeks likewise in English, just as we do 
those of the ancient Persians, Egyptians, Arahians and Phoenic- 
ians, all of whom are also entitled to our time and consideration. 

"Did students devote as much time and as faithfullv in acquir- 
ing a thorough knowledge of French and German as they do of 
Latin and Greek, they would graduate proficient French and Ger- 
man scholars. And let me ask you right here to show me an 
alumnus of three years age who would not gladly — nay, joyfully 
• — exchange his Latin and Greek for the ahility to read, write and 
speak V itii facility in French and German, and ram1)le at will 
through their fascinating literature and history — to say nothing of 
their business advantages — and _\-ou can expend all the mental 
labor you possess on those languages without exhausting them, 
and you can exercise as much memory, ingenuit}- and taste in their 
translation as in that of Latin and Greek." 

The excellent poem read on this occasion liy Edwin bdeming 
was published in the former class-book. The following quotation 
truthfully described the joyful emotion pictured on the counten- 
ance of every member of '70 there present : 



'A poem you ask for? The hand of him take. 
Who sits there beside you. Is not that warm shake, 
A far truer poem than volumes that go forth, 
A singing of birds and of flowers and so forth ? 
And as I stand here trying to make these words rhyme, 
And my lame, unnnisical feet to keep time. 
You are looking the poetry all this while 
In the light of the eye and the joy of the smile, 
That betoken a somethins: which words can not tell — 



Department of Ltterature, Science, and Arts. 383 



An ineffable something — }'0U know it fnll well — 

A something- the plethoric past doth unfold 

From liberal memory's magical nmuld. 

And with the bright present a woof interweaves — 

An evergreen garland refreshed with spring leaves." 



From the graceful remarks of Charles AF Wells, presenting 
the class cups, two short quotations are made. The address entire 
appeared in the former class publication. 



"You will undoubtedly ask wh}- this dual array of cups. A 
class so seldom undervalues itself that this, perhaps the first in- 
stance of the kind with '70, deserves special recognition. We 
could with reasonable certainty expect one class boy first. Our 
mistake was that we made no provision in our expectations for two 
boys first. Twins you ask? Xo ; contemporaries, double stars, 
simultaneous phenomena, competitors, neck and neck in the race 
for life and the cup." 



"This is the cup of life, empt}' of experience, it is full only in 
possibilities. Every possibility of human joy, every possibility of 
human woe. From this cup may 1)e drunk whatsoever the owner 
will. To drink wisely, so that each succeeding potion shall be 
richer and fuller than that preceding, and the last draught reveal 
at the bottom of the cup the pure metal, bright and untarnished — 
such is the responsibility of life." 



Charles Ballenger with fitting words thankfully received one 
of the cups for and on behalf of his son, \\'alter Sylvester, and S. 
R. Winchell, in appropriate verse, thanked the class on behalf of 



384 Class of '70, University of Michigan. 



his son. Harley Corson, who was present on the stage and received 
his cuj) in person. Following" is an extract from Winchell's ac- 
ceptance, which was printed in fnll in the former hook issued hy 
the class : 



"Compared with this. Commencement I)a\- was naught. 
Xo ho\s then graced the nohle class of Seventy, 
Xo ladies then were numbered in our ranks, 
Ihit men alone we gathered in this church, 
Rejoicing all in single blessedness. 
But now one-third have learned the better way. 
One-third return to alma mater's halls 
Escorted by accessions to their ranks 
Such as inspire and animate the rest 
To follow suit and join the van-guard soon. 
This cup, so handsomely presented him, 
Harley shall take, since this is your desire. 
And humbl\- wcudd he thank you if he could, 
For such a treasure and such marked regard. "' 



In the evening of the same day we met at llangstefer's and en- 
joyed an old time ban([uet. Lovell acted as toastmaster and called 
forth many ha]5py responses to the impromptu toasts. The glee 
club as usual added cheer, variety and pleasure to the occasion. 
Reports from the absent were read. Those present recounted their 
own experiences for the three years last past. In the first three 
years of post-graduate life twenty-four of our number had mar- 
ried, enabling us to rejoice in the possession of twenty-four wives 
and nine children. Death had not then invatled our ranks. It 
wcndd scarcely be possible for any college class to meet under more 
pleasing conditons or to more thoroughly enjoy a re-union than 
did the class of '70 on this occasion. 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 385 

In 1878 there met at Ann Arbor the following- six members of 
the elass. viz.: Ueman, Campbell, Howland, Pennington, Wliitman 
and Wing. They passed a resolntion naming the vear 1880 as the 
time for a general re-nnion. Whitman was selected as orator, 
Howlanch ahernatc ; Ijeman, poet; Wing, alternate. 

Accorchngly, in June, 1880, Bates, Beman, Burton, Campbell, 
Darrow, Dawson, Dodge, Fleming, Howland. Lovell, Matthews, 
( )lds, I'enficld. Perr}-, Tha}er and Whitman were on hand at the 
appointed time. Pentield was cho-sen chairman and Burton sec- 
retary. A sumptuous Ijanquet was enjoyed. Whitman delivered 
an oration and Beman a Greek poem. These were followed by 
miscellaneous im])rom])tu speaking, b'inall}- the time arrived for 
the selection of one to represent the class and respond tu the class 
toast at the ahmmi dinner the following day. It had lieen ])re- 
viously whispered around to ah except Thayer that he was tu be 
imanimously chosen for this honor. Nominations were, however, 
regularlv made, many seriously urging their own ([uahhcatiuns 
for the coveted (hstinction. When in turn each one present had 
been nominated, except the genial "Judge." and the claims of each 
had been pressed with vigor, the chairman appointed Thayer as 
teller and a ballot was taken. He collected the l)allots and soon 
discovered, to his astonishment, that in classifying them he re- 
quired but a single pile, marked, "The Judge." At the same time 
he noticed that unusual silence prevailed. He looked arountl. ol)- 
served the unsuccessful attempts at suppressed merriment, saw- 
through the cut and dried affair like a tlash and annoiuiced. amidst 
a burst of laughter, that it was unnecessary to complete the count. 

The re-iuiion was in ever}- way successful. A shadow, liow- 
ever. which has since been increasing, hung over the class. Three 
of our graduate members — Blackburn. Wvlie and Campau — and 
seven of our non-graduate members — Johnson. Pollens. Graham. 
A. L. Andrews, r.eller. Smith, and Aver\- — had passed over the 
silent river. 



386 Class of 'jo, University of Michigan. 

The next general re-union of the class was held in Jnne, 1890, 
when there gathered at our banquet tal)!e in the "old chapel" a 
delighted company as follows : 

Baker and wife, I'ates. Benian and wife. Boss. Bradlev and 
son, Bumpus, Burton, Campbell and wife. Carter, Cooler, Davock. 
Dawson, Fearon and wife. Ferguson, Gilbert, LeFevre and wife, 
LoA^ell and wife. Marsh. Xoble and wife and son. Olds, Penfield, 
Price, Stocking. Swift. Thayer, A'oorheis. Whitman and wife. 
Winchell and wife. Wing, Darrow. Stagg and son. 

This was our largest gathering since 1873. and was one long to 
be remembered by those present. ^lany of us had not met since 
1870 — a period of twenty years — and our mutual greeting were 
most cordial. We were given a warm welcome by classmates 
Benian and Whitman and enjoyed ourselves at the banquet table 
during the greater portion of the night. Next morning was taken 
the group picture which appears at page 103 of this volume. 

In 1895, the secretar}-, being anxious to secure a large repre- 
sentation at the next re-union, said, in his circular letter to the 
class : "Duty and pleasure again prompt me to summon each and 
all of you to assemble at our alma uiatcr in the last week of the 
coming June. Xo one of you will question why ; no one of you 
will neglect the call. Our quarter-centennial, our silver wedding, 
appeals irresistiljly to our mutual friendship, to our loyal class- 
spirit, to our love for the classic halls of the university, and to our 
admiration for the charming city by the Huron where so many 
of our college days and months slipped by as peacefully and quiet- 
ly as sails upon a tranquil sea." It was gratifying to learn that no 
one who could attend did neglect the call, and that twenty-two re- 
sponded to their names at the re-union of that year, as follows : 
Bates, Beman, Burton, Campbell, Carter, Cooley, Davock, Daw- 
son, Emerson, Fleming, Gilbert, Hyde, Ketchum. N^oble. Olds. 
Perry, Price. Swift. Whitman. Wing, Darrow and Jacklin. Several 



Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 38' 



were acconii:)anie(l ])_\- n]einl)crs of their families. The ban()uet was 
held in Harris Hall, corner of State and Huron streets. The meet- 
ing- was productive of much pleasure. Joyfi-d greeting's, college 
songs and impromptu speeches filled uy> the evening. Our class- 
mate, Wdiitman. royally entertained us at his residence on the fol- 
lowing- day. All were delighted with the opportunity given at 
this re-union to renew old time associations, and to relate and to 
hear the old time stories. 

The thirtieth anniversary of our graduation was celebrated at 
Ann Arbor in June, ujoo. by twenty members of the class and 
eight members of their families. They were 15ates, Air. and Mrs. 
I>eman, Miss lleman, Uradley. lUu'ton, Campbell, Carter, Cooley. 
Mr. and Mrs. Culley, Miss CuUey, Davock. Dawson, Mr. and Mrs. 
Dodge, French, Mr. and Mrs. Kintner, LeFevre, Matthews, Mr. 
and Mrs. Xoble, Olds and his son, Tindall, Wing, and Williams. 
The "boys" assembled in tlie forenoon of Wednesday, June 20th, 
at the university and exchanged greetings. In the afternoon we 
visited an art gallery and the picture on page 235 of this volume 
was taken. Mr. and Mrs. IJeman and Aliss l'>eman tendered us a 
reception from 4 to 6 p.m. at their residence and at 7 130 p.m. we 
sat down to our banquet table in Harris Hall. Letters and tele- 
grams bearing cordial greetings were read from P.aldwin. liaker. 
Boss, Christy, Darrow, Errett. Fearon. Fleming. Gunnison, Gil- 
bert, Howland. Hyde, Jacklin, Ketchum, Alaltman, Marsh, Pen- 
field. I'erry. Phillips. Maylmry. Price, Stocking, Stevens, Schock, 
Swift, Thayer, Thomson, Tweedy, Wattles, Wells and Winchell. 
The two representatives of '70's glee club, Campbell and Dawson, 
who were present, gave us some of the old-time songs, and each 
of the members present gave reminiscent talks which were enjoyed 
by all. At this meeting the secretary was authorized and requested 
to publish a new class-book, bringing the printed record of the 
class down to date. The present volume is the result. 

Besides the general re-unions at our ahiia mater at stated inter- 
vals there have been many local gatherings of members of the 
class on special occasions at Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Cleve- 



388 Class of 70, University of Michigan. 



land. New York and Washington. lUit few particnlars as to these 
meetings however are at hand. In Febrnary, igoi, Thayer enter- 
tained at the Cosmos Chib in Washington, Raker, Rowland, Le- 
Fevre, Noble. Penfield, Ripley and Stevens, and on the Satnrday 
evening following LeFevre entertained the same fellows. The 
Chicago boys met in July, 1901, on the occasion of Thayer's visit 
to that city and had a thoroughly enjoyable time. There were pres- 
ent Thayer, Dawson, Noble, Reed, Ripley. Whitman and Win- 
chell. Two days later the same generous band tendered a recep- 
tion to Culley and wife, who were en ronte ^^'est. There were 
present on this occasion at a delightful lunch, Culley and wife, 
Darrow and wife, Dawson and wife, Matthews and wife, Xol)le 
and wife. Reed and wife, Ripley and wife, \\'hitman. Winchell 
and wife, and Carter and wife. On October ii, iyc2, at Detroit, 
Bates, Davock, Day and Perry lunched together. 

The members of the class of '70 miss no opportimity to meet 
each other and revive the pleasant memories of days that are no 
more. The next regular class re-union is set for June, 1905. 



INDEX. 



Adams. Artluir C, i. 308, 311. 350, 

363. 370- 

Adams, Prof. Charles K., 375. 
Allyn. George W.. 241. 308. 311, 316. 

345. 354. 363- 
Alpha Delta Phi. 370. 
Alpha Nu. 360. 363. 
Andrews. Albion A., 243. 311. 316, 

3I7- 318- 366. 
Andrews, Abner L.. 244. 309. 311. 

316. 318. 363, 365, 385. 
Aristotelian JJebating Club, 332, 366. 
Avery, Sherman S.. 244, 309. 314. 

316. 345. 363. 367. 371. 383. 
Bachelors of Arts. 350. 
Bachelors of Philosophy. 350. 351. 
Bachelors of Science. 350. 
Baker. ]\Iarcus. 2. 38, 103. 186. 315, 

^^7. 330. 331. 345- 349. 350. ,363. 

377^ 386. 387, 388. 
Baldwin, Albert E.. 245, 311, 316. 
Baldwin, John A., 7. 311, 317, 320, 

326, 344, 350, 354, 356, 358, 359, 

361, 362. 363, 370, 387. 
Ballenger, Charles. 11. 309. 311, 32^,. 

324, 330, 344, 345. 35a. j,^:^, 354. 

364. 365. 371. 37^- 373- 374. 378. 
383. 

Barlow, Henry H., 14, 311, t,23. 350. 

364. ,365. 370. 371. 37^^ 373- 
Ba.se Ball Club, 375. 

389 



Base Ball Game, 371. 

Bates, George W.. 15, 103, 235, 311, 

318. 324. 3J4. 350, 354. 363. 365, 

378. 385. 386, 387. 388. 
Beller, Jacob, Jr., 33. 245, 309, 311, 

316, 365, 385. 
Beman, Wooster W., 26, 103, 227, 

235, 311, 349. 350, .365, 377- 378, 385, 

386, 387- 
Bennett, Henry Graves, 245, 311,315. 
Bird, Judson S., 28, 115, 154, 309, 

312. 344, 349, 363, 366, 367, 378. 
Blackburn. Julius A., 30, 308, 309, 

312, 318, 320, 321, 325, 326, 345, 

350, 351. 356, 358, 359- 3(^2, 370, 

373- 375' 37^' 3^5- 
Blanchard. James H., 32. 245, 312, 

350, 377- 
Boise, Prof. James R., 20, 184, 375. 
"Bolts," 334. 
Boss, Clarence AL, 34. 103. 315, 3^19, 

386, 387. 
Boughton, Darius F., 247, 312, 316, 

366. 
Bowman. Charles A.. 247. 312, 316. 
Bradley. Franklin. 3J, 103. 235, 315, 

345, 350, 363. 370. 374. 378. 386, 387. 
Bumpus, Patrick H., 43, 103, 189, 

310, 312, 317, 326, 330, 345, 347, 

348. 350. 364. 366. 371. 37^. 373, 

377. 378. 386. 



seK) 



IXDEX. 



"Burlesque." 338, 339. 367. 

Burr, James D.. 248, 308. 309. 313, 

363. 
Burton. Charles F.. 3. 46. 103. 196. 

23S- 31^. 350. 365. 370. 377- 37^- 

385. 386. 3S7. 
Bush, Thomas H., 40. 308. 310. 312, 

318. 319. 323. 344. 345. 350, 354, 

355. 356, 359. 362. 363. 366, 370, 377. 

378. 
Campau. George T.. 51. 309. 312.317, 

318. 320. 321. 327. 329. 330. 331. 

344. 345, 347, 349. 350. 354, 363, 

370. 378. 379. 385- 
Campliell. Oscar J.. 54. 103. 23^. 308. 

315. 323. 324, 325. 326. 327. 329. 

349, 350, 354, 336. 338, 339. 362. 

364, 370, 371. 37-2- 373- 375. 378. 

385. 386, 387. 
Carter, Charles S.. 62. 103. no. 233. 

308. 312. 317. 319. 320. 321, 325, 

3^7- 331. 344. 345. 350. 353. 354- 

355. 364. 366, 367, 371, 372. 373. 

374. 378. 386, 387. 388. 
Castalia, 374. 

Chapin, Prof. Lucius D., 373. 
Chappell, Delos A., 231. 314, 316. 

367. 370. 
Chi Psi, 370. 
Christy. Thomas C, 71. 184. 243.308. 

312. 318. 320. 321. 324. 323. 326, 

327, 329. 345. 349. 330. 334. 335. 

364, 370, 387. 
Civil Engineers, 349. 
"Class Boys," 331, 378, 383. 384. 
Class Canes. 323, 324. 333. 
"Class Cups." 331, 377. 383. 384. 
Class-Day Exercises, 346. 347. 
Class History by Stevens, 331. 
Class ^Meetings, 317. 
Class Officers — Freshman year. 317; 

Sophomore year. 319; Junior year. 

322 ; Senior year. 326. 



Class Photographs, 327. 329. 330. 333. 

Class Prophecy. 347. 348. 

Class Roster. 311. 

Class Seal. 317. 318. 322. 

Cochran. A'arnum B.. 233 310. 312, 

315- 
Cocker, Prof. Benjamin F., 123, 196, 

^34. 375. 378, 379- 
College Rushes, 332. 
Commencement ( 26th Annual ) . 349, 

350- 351. 35-'- 
Cooley, Eugene F., 73. 87. 103, 184, 

-235. 312. 350. 370. 375- 378. 386. 

387. 
Culley. John L., 75, 233,310.312.349. 

354. 364. 366. 367, 370. 387, 388. 
Curtis. Prof. Allen J.. 223. 233. 375. 
Darrow. Edward E.. 236. 103. 184. 

312, 316. 320. 321. 344. 334. 333, 

366, 374, 383. 386, 387. 388. 
Davock, Harlow P., 80. 35, 42, 76, 

103. 235, 312, 318, 320, 321. 324, 

326. 328. 330, 349, 350. 333, 363. 
366. 370. 374, 386. 387. 388. 

Dawson. George E., 83. 103. 213. 

233. 260. 312, 318. 319. 320. 326. 

327. 328. 329. 330. 343. 330. 354, 
356. 359, 363. 366. 374. 375- 378. 
385. 386. 387. 388. 

Day, William R., 86, 123, 160, 186, 
194, 196, 271, 272. 312, 318. 321. 
326, 330. 343, 350, 364, 366, 370, 
371. 372. 373- 374. 377. 388. 

Deceased Members, 309. 

Degrees Conferred. 349. 330. 

Delta Kappa Epsilon. 370. 

Dodge, Charles K.. 44, 92, 233. 312, 
344. 345. 350, 363, 366, 371. 372. 
373. 385. 387. 

D'Ooge. Prof. ]Martin L.. 20. 41. 301, 
360, 373. 

Eastwood. John F.. 260. 312. 313. 

Echoes from College Davs, 311. 



Index. 391 

Editors of "The Oracle," 320. 354. Greeley. Frank N., 261, 312, 316. 354 

Editors of "The University Chron- "Greeley." ^^^2. 342. 

icle." 321, 355. Gunnison. Frank, 263, 312, 315. 387 

Edwards. Charles S.. Jr.. g6. 312. Gymnasium. 321, 2^2. 333. 

350. 354. 363. 365. 366. Haven. Pres. Erastus O.. 113. 224 

Emerick. Frank. 261. 312. 316, 318, 2/2, 353. ^7^. 

320. 354. 366. 371. Haven. Otis E.. 113. 184. 224, 310 

Emerson. William T., 94. 310. 314. 312. 321, 345, 350. 370. 371. 372 

350. 365. 371. .^7>^. .386. 373. 37S. 

Errett, Russell. 97. 315. 350. 387. Hawks. James D., 264, 312, 316, 363 

Evans. Prof. Edward P.. 341. 353. 370. 

375. Hayward. James A., 114. 309. 312 

Fearon, Robert N., gg, 103, 314, 350. 322. 349, 350, 365. 

354. 363, 370. 386, 387- Hill, Eben L.. 265. 308. 314. 3i6. 319 

Ferguson, Luther E., 104, 103. 312. 363. 

349, 365. 378- 386. Hill. Frank C., 267. 310. 315. 316. 

Finley, Achilles. 102. 312. 350. 365, Holliday. James C., 267, 310. 312, 

366. 316. 354, 363. 

Fleming, Edwin. loi, 137. 186. 257. Hostetler, Joseph C.. 268, 313, 316, 

314. 3^0, 321, 325, 326, 327. 328, 331, 366. 

344, 345, 34g, 350, 355, 356, 359. Howe, Frank H., 120, 310. 315. 3?.^ 

363. 370. 374. 37^- 382. 385. 386. 350. 365, 370. 

387. Howland. John C., 117, 315, 324,329, 

Ford, Prof. Corydon L., 334, 375. 350, 363. 365, 366, 377. 378, 385, 

Foster, ^Morris B., 106, 308, 315, 350, 387. 388. 

365. 366. Hurford. Samuel R.. 268. 313. 316. 

Franklin Statue. 329. 330. XU- 347- 363- 

348, 349. Huron Debating Club. 33-' 3^7- 

Fraternity Boys, 370. Hyde, Washington, 122, 315. 344, 

French, George J., 108, 235, 312. 345, 349, 350, 363, 366, 377, 386, 

3-2-2. 323. 324. 326, 350, 363. 372, 387. 

373- 387. Independent Organization, 371. 

Frieze, Prof. Henry S.. 20. 195. 227. Jacklin. James E.. 269. 313. 316, 3i7. 

346, 347, 349, 352, 375. 354, 386, 387. 

Gardner, Hamline J., 261, 309. 312, Johnson, John W., 270. 309, 313. 327. 

316. 370. 328. 363, 365. 366. 370. 385. 

Gilbert. Charles P., iii, 35, 38, 103, Jones, Francis W., 123, 313. 344. 350, 

168. 315, 326. 329. 349. 371. 374, 366. 

378, 386. 387- "Judge." 333. XV^. 342. 377, 385. 

Glee Club. 333. 346. ^56, 378. Junior Exhibition, 334, 343. 

Graduate Members, i, 311. Kappa Phi Lambda, 370. 

Graham. Willis G.. 261. 309. 312. 315. Ketchum. Eugene. 128. 316. 330, 334, 

385- 364. 363. 386, 387. 



392 IxDKX. 

King. Edward P., 194. 271, 313. 315. Mcrriman. Prof. George B., 375. 

.^Wi. Mcyomlortt, IMichacl A.. 151, 186. 
Kintner, Cliarles ].. 133, _v,5, 313. 313. 321. ^jg, 350. 3(14. 370, 374. 

317. ,^22. 345, 350. 303. 3(15, 30(1. Micklc. (ioorge \\'.. 3, 28. 115, 154. 

^75- ^77- 37^- 3i^7- '7-'. .^i,^ .^50- .^64. 365, 366. 378. 

Kniglit, Earlc ].. 273. 313, 315. 317. Mills, Joscjili J.. 280. 315. 316. 

La]<e. Henry \\'.. 2~^'!„ 301), 313. 31O. Mining luigineers, 349. 

354, 3(15. 370. Mitchell. John A.. 281. 313, 315. 365. 
Lealiier Medal. 330. 347. 348. 3(17. 

Le Fevre. Owen F... 103. 135. 235. Moore, Charles T. 2S2, 313. 316,365. 

308. 315. 323. 350, 3W1, 370, 38(1, Moses, Bernard. 155, 186, 313, 318, 

3^*7. ,^"^8. 3-'4- .i-'6. 344. .U6. 347. 350. 3,'^.v 

Literary Adelplii. 360, 364. 3.^4. 355. 3(13. 3(14. 067. 371. 374, 

Logan. Joseph L.. 274. 308. 313. 31(1. Nohle. Alfred. 35. 38. 42. 103, 111. 

354. 364. 365, 366. 157. 17-'. 17''. ii^<^. 19.=;. -'07. 235. 

Lorenz. Henry L.. 276. 313. 31O. 319. 308. 315. 32T. ^,22. 324. 350, 3(34. 

366. 366. 370. 386. ^^S-. 388. 

Lothrop. George H.. 2~~. 310. 313. Non-Graduates, 241, 311. 

316. 364. 371. Xorcross. Eugene C. 283, 313. 315. 

Lovell. \'incent S.. 84. 80. 103. 137, Oge. \\'illiain L.. 283. 308. 313. 316. 

184. 257. 2(10. 310, 313. 317. 318, 318. ^^^:^. 3(14, 370. 

319. 320. 321. 325. 327. 328. 330. Olds. Clark. 48. 103. 161. 235. 313. 
345- 349. 350. 353. 354. 355. 35(^- 3-'4. 344- 350. 3f'4- 366. 367, 371. 
359. 362, 364, 366. 374. 37S. 384. 3S5. 386, :iS7. 

3^5- 380. Olney. Prof. Edward. 3. 2;!,^^. 271. 
"Lmver House l-'aculty." 339. 3:17. 34(1. 347. ;i,~^. 

Maltnian. John S.. 42. 84. 139. 308. Oracle. 320. 333. 354. 

315. 321. ^^22. ^U7- ?i-^- 331- 345- <^^"'' Instructors. 334. t,j^. 

346, 347, 350, ^^-,b. 359. 370, ,^J\ Palladitnn. 374. 

387. Pentield, William L.. 91. 103. 164. 
Marsh. Milo 1'... 103. 147. 313. 319. 186. 315. ^^22. 324. ^^2/. 349, 350. 

321, 350, 304, 305, 3()(), ^Vi7- 377- 364. 365. 374. 38: 386. 387. 388. 

3i7^. 386. 387. Pennington. Darius C. 162, 308, 313. 
^fatthews. William F.. 150. 235. 313. 3,"iO. 350. 365, 367. 370, 377, 378. 

345. 350. 354. 304. 305. 3(i(\ 372. ^Ss- 

373- 374- 385. ,^87. 388. Perkins. Fred. 2S>7. 313. 3T5. 

^laxwell. John L.. 279. 310. 313. 31(1. Perry. Aaron, idh. 313. 327. 344. 350. 

364. 365. 371. 3O4. 365. 367. 37-^- 373- 378. 385. 

Maybury. William C. 27^.. 313. 31(1. :i,S6. 387. 388. 

320. 345. 3(14. 370. 387. l^hi Delta Theta. 370. 
McCormack. Zuinglius K.. 279. 308. Phillips. Maxwell A.. 288. 308. 313, 

313. 310. 317. 321. 30;i. 370. 316. 319. 3b4. 365. 366. 387. 



Index. 



393 



I'hilii/ctiaii Di'liatiiig C'lul), 3,?-^. .^^'5- 
Pollens, Julius J,, jyo, ,^09, ,^13, ,?i6, 

364. 385. 
Preston, I'enjainin T. K., jgi, ,?i,?, 

3i(>. J,<J3, 370. 
Price, Samuel \'>.. 10,^, 170, p,i^. ,^50, 

366, 377, 386, 3H7. 
Prize Debate, 360, 374. 
Psi r|)>ilon, 370. 
Reed. Hugh T., 292, 308, 315, 310. 

388. 
Reunions. 377. 
Ripley. Henry C, 115, \()0. 171, 313, 

3ig, 324, ^-^jCk 32<S, 344. 350, 353, 

3O4, 366, ^]b7. ,^-2. ^7^. 3SX, 
Robinson. Prof. Slillnian \V., 375. 
Romig, Samuel V., 290, 314, 315. 
Schock, William H., 178. 308, 314. 

330. 387- 
Selby, IJoyd P>., 296, 314, 315. 
Sigma Phi, 371. 
Sigma Tau, _^P7. 
Simmons, Arthur R., 297, 314, 316, 

370. 
Smith, James S., ,?oo, 308, 309, 314, 

3'<''. 385. 
Soldiers' Roll of Honor, 308. 
Sophomore Exhibitions, ^ii^,;^, 344. 
Sox, Edward F., 298, 308, 315, 316, 

?,(V- 
Spence, Prof. Adam K. 109, j_^t,. 373. 
Stagg, William. 301. 308. 310, 314. 

316. 370, 386. 
Stanford. Mortimer H.. 303. 308, 

314, 315, 366. 
Stevens, Walter R., 180, 314, 319, 

321. 326, 331, 345, 347, 348, 349, 

350, 353, 354. 355, 363. 364. 366. 

371- 37-i. ?,73- 374- 387. 388. 
Stevens' Class History. 331. 347. 348. 
Stocking, Leonard E.. 103, 182, 270, 

314, 321, 328, 350, 364, 366, 370. 

371, 372, 373, 386, 387. 



354- 
353- 

308. 
370, 



M., ,303, ,?o8, 314, 



., >>7. 103, 184, 
324, 325, 3-'6, 



Students' Christian Association, 
Students" Lecture Association, 
Students in University, 37(). 
Swift, Lucius P.., 103, 183, 2,59, 

314, 349, 350, 354, 3O5, 366, 

374. 386, 387. 
Taylor. Charles 

310, 370. 
Thayer. Rufus 1 

.V7- 3iy, 3-'i. 

350, 354. 355- 3f>o. 3^'4. 365. 

?.70- 371. 37^- 373- 385. 386. 

388. 
Tlu' "Pony." ,^1. 
Thompson. Judson N., 30O, 310 

316. 
Thoi'.ison. Alexander, 

314, 321, 322, 326, 

348, 350, 365, 366, 

3^7- 
Tindall. Orlando L., 

350. 365, 387. 
Tweedy. James F.. 38 

350, 370. 377^ 3^7- 
Tyler, Prof. Moses ( 

322, T,J,}. 353, 368. 375. 
L^niversity Chronicle. ^2\, 355. 
University Day, 326, 327. 374. 
Uni\ersity Glee Club. 356. 339. 
Yoorheis, Peter, 103, 197, 310, 

324. 344, 350, 354, :^(\]. 364, 

366, 371, 372, 373. 

386. 
Walker, Samuel W., 

344- 3(>(>- 
Waters. William J.. 

314, 319, 322, 349, 369, 378. 
Watson, Prof. James C, 3, 20, 

134, 214, 234, 327, 369, 375. 
Wattles. Greenleaf C, 306, 314, 

320, 354, 367, 370. 
Wattles, Oliver H., 200, 314, 

350. 366. 387. 



314- 
345. 
3^'6. 
.387, 



314, 



103, 


1^7. 


308. 


330, 


3A4- 


347. 


3(>7- 


374. 


377. 


190, 


-'35- 


315. 


i'J3. 


3 1 4. 


3-\S. 


"oit, 


227, 


3-'0, 



374. 377- 

306, ,? ! 4, 
28, 1 1 3, 



314. 
3f'5. 
37^, 

316, 
199, 
133. 
316. 
318, 



394 



Index. 



Weisbrod, Albert \V., 41, 105, 202, 
310, 314, 350. 371, i72, 373. 

Wells, Charles M.. 204, 236, 308, 315, 

^22, 345, 3=10, 353, 363, 364. 365, 
366. Z7i- 374. 378. 383. 387. 

Whitman, Charles R.. 103, 109, 212, 

314, 321, 345, 350, 7,77. 378. 385, 
386. 387. 388. 

Williams, Prof. George P.. 227. 324. 

375- 
Williams, Walter W., 307, 314, 316. 

370. 387. 
Willits, Warren C, 115, 199. 218. 

310, 314, 319, 320. 321. 350. 365. 

367. 



Winchell. Prof. Alexander, 123, 222. 

224. 225. 242, 353, 375. 
Winchell, Samuel R., 42, 103, 221, 

315. 324, 345, 350, 355, 356, 364, 

370. 377. 378. .?83. 386, 387, 388. 
Wing, Charles G., 103, 235, 236, 270, 

308, 314, 321, 322, Z2i, 326, 327. 

?,-\7- 348. 350. 363. 364. 366, 371. 

372. 373. 385, 386, 387. 
Wood. Prof. De Volson, 35, 37^. 
Wylie, Thomas, 236, 309, 315, 322, 

350. 354. 364. 366, 385- 
Zeta Psi. 371. 



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